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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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| | HHVM's JIT compiler allows it to execute PHP faster than Zend PHP in most cases, unmodified. However, we've gotten some interest from the community in HipHop...
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| | This is a cross-post of an article that I wrote for the SIGPLAN blog. "Undefined Behavior" often has a bad reputation. People see it as an excuse compiler writers use to break code, or an ...
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