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In article <DMGt0K.64B@cix.compulink.co.uk>, mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Mark Morgan Lloyd ") writes:
> The use of untagged variants is actually quite slow, since most of the 
> work is done at run time.

 I am not sure what this means. Certainly in our compiler (Mod51) untagged
variants can be used to completely overlay variables in memory, with no
RAM overhead for the TAG, nor code overhead for their access.
 SO you can pack 4 BYTES onto a REAL, or 2 8 Bit BITSETs onto a WORD etc...
I can see no reason that any runtime process be involved.
 As an aid to memory-overlay, and packing ( important when your target may
have just 64 BYTES of RAM ( including STACK! ), we also have extended the
BITSET concept to allow effectively packed arrays of BOOLEAN.

 
> Mark Morgan Lloyd
> mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk
> 
> [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or 
> colleagues]
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