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| | Tilting at windmills and other endeavors
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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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| | Hoisting is a compiler optimization that moves loop-invariant code out of the loop. The post reveals hoisting in .NET and explains what code will be optimized and why.
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| Let's talk about pinning in the Rust programming language.