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| | In the previous post, we established that as long as ruby/json wasn't competitive on micro-benchmarks, public perception wouldn't change. Since what made ruby/json appear so bad on micro-benchmarks was its setup cost, we had to find ways to reduce it further.
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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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| Maybe I'll be boring with this note, but again I need to write that this was another good year for C++! Here's a bunch of facts: Visual Studio 2015 was released with great support for C++14/17 and even more experimental features. Long-awaited GCC 5.0 was released at the beginning of the year.