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The site had the following in the homepage, "Why is an int in OCaml only 31 bits? The 32nd bit is used for garbage collection." I noticed that the web site stated " But why is it that way only for ints and not for the other basic types? This is called a tagged pointer representation, and is a pretty common optimization trick used in many different interpreters, VMs and runtime systems for decades." They also stated " Pretty much every Lisp implementation uses them, many Smalltalk VMs, many Ruby interpreters, and so on. However, there is a way out most current mainstream CPUs work ."