Re: [Pharo-dev] what is the relationship between Float and its subclasses?

SmallFloat is like SmallInteger: immediate value encoded in oop, and it is only for 64 bits Spur VM. Boxed is the classical VM Float, two 4-bytes word allocated per Float, and is both for 32 bits VM and Float values not fitting in immediate format (3 bits have been stolen from exponent...). 2016-02-01 20:49 GMT+01:00 stepharo <stepharo@free.fr>:

Hi

I'm updating Pharo by example and the relationship between Float and its subclasses is unclear to me. Do we only get instances of the subclasses now?

I got that Boxed is only for 64 bits. But SmallFloat? The class comment is not really self describing.

Stef