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If your language matches ocaml's runtime semantics, then sure. It means uniform representation, 63bits integers, etc. but can be quite useful if your language is ML-ish.



Also worth pointing out there's design constraints on the OCaml 5 GC imposed by some of OCaml's language features (looking at you ephemerons) and C API invariants.

There may be different constraints for other runtimes.




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