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bernsteinbear.com | ||
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kuruczgy.com
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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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v8.dev
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| | | | | V8 reduced its heap size up to 43%! Learn how in "Pointer Compression in V8"! | |
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everythingfunctional.wordpress.com
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| | | The answer to the question of whether we should write automated test suites has largely been settled. We absolutely should write unit tests, and possibly even integration and end-to-end tests. But as acceptance of this practice grew, and adoption became more widespread, a follow-up question arose; How many tests should we write? How do we... | ||
