translation.taggedpointers

  • name: taggedpointers
  • description: When true, enable the use of tagged pointers. If false, use normal boxing
  • command-line: –translation-taggedpointers
  • command-line for negation: –no-translation-taggedpointers
  • option type: boolean option
  • default: False

Enable tagged pointers. This option is mostly useful for the Smalltalk and Prolog interpreters. For the Python interpreter the option –objspace-std-withsmalllong should be used.