Re: Is it hard to write a fast JIT for a language that distinguishes between NULL and Int32=0

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com> wrote:
> Although I am no expert, I will try to answer anyway: NULL in this
> case can be a non-pointer type which has a single value. In this case
> all is needed is a encoding for this new type inside a machine word.
> But this is for a dynamic language, I don't know about Dart.

in Dart, numbers are objects that implement some interfaces, and all
the complexity of traditional OOP.  NULL is exactly that: no object,
while 0 is a number of value 0.

-- 
Javier