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Use fat pointers for vectors #136

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eholk opened this issue Feb 19, 2014 · 0 comments
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Use fat pointers for vectors #136

eholk opened this issue Feb 19, 2014 · 0 comments

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eholk commented Feb 19, 2014

Instead of representing vectors as a pointer to a length field, we would represent them as a pair of a length and a pointer to the data. We pay a bit more for pointers, but it means we don't have to dereference memory as often to find the length. In particular, this means we'll be able to launch kernels without incurring a copy.

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