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| | Yesterday, Michael Snoyman reported a surprising regression in version 1.0 of my Haskell text library: for some invalid inputs, the UTF-8 decoder was truncating the invalid data instead of throwing an exception. Thanks to Michael providing an easy repro, I...
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| | Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
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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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