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| | As hardware gets faster and more capable, software keeps getting slower. It is remarkable how inefficiently typical apps use the capabilities of modern processors! Often this means an app is doing only one thing at a time when it could do multiple things simultaneously, even on a single thread. This article explores a technique for...
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| | I've been learning a lot about low-level programming languages lately, and for a long time there has been one thing that has interested me: SIMD (or ...
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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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| [AI summary] The article discusses various open-source scripting languages and tools compatible with the Java platform, such as Groovy, Jython, BeanShell, Rhino, JRuby, and others, highlighting their features and use cases.