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Richard Kelsey <kelsey@xxxxxxx> writes: > If I'm using some exotic number representation (constructive reals, > perhaps), then EXTRACT_DOUBLE may very well involve some pretty hairy, > hence possibly GC-causing, computation. > > This doesn't worry me too much; there aren't a lot of such > implementations around. Huh? This is a very poor reason.