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coredumped.dev
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| | | | | In this post, we are going to take a deep dive into pointer tagging, where metadata is encoded into a word-sized pointer. Doing so allows us to keep a compact representation that can be passed around in machine registers. This is very common in implementing dynamic programming languages, but can really be used anywhere that additional runtime information is needed about a pointer. We will look at a handful of different ways these pointers can be encoded and see how the compiler can optimize them for diff... | |
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www.linaro.org
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| | | | | In this article, David Spickett talks about how Top Byte Ignore works and how to use it. Read more here! | |
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www.snellman.net
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| | | | | A look at the way the representation of numbers evolved in first few years of Lisp across different implementations (LISP I, LISP 1.5, Basic PDP-1 LISP, M-460 LISP, PDP-6 LISP, BBN LISP). Start with the worst number representation this side of church numerals, end with something surprisingly modern. | |
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pw999.wordpress.com
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| | | Today I had to re-sync my OneDrive library on my Windows 8.1 laptop but before I could log in I got stuck on a "Javascript is required" error message. I checked, double-check and re-checked that all Javascript options were enabled in Internet Explorer 11. I completely reset the browser, wiping all my settings, I re-installed... | ||
