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| | | | | A flop is one of the elementary arithmetic operations $latex +$, $latex -$, $latex *$, $latex /$ carried out on floating-point numbers. For example, evaluating the expression $latex (b - ax)/c$ takes three flops. A square root, which occurs infrequently in numerical computation, is also counted as one flop. As an example, the computation of... | |
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| | | | | In the not-too-distant past English used the pronoun "him" to refer to individuals of unspecified gender in phrases such as "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion." This understandably annoys som... | |
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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... | ||
