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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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| | Today, we got a question regarding programming C and the necessity of knowing the assembly language of the processor that we are working on.
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| A bit about me I'm Philippe, and I'm Technical Account Manager at GitLab. I am french, but you cannot hear my lovely accent. I love a lot speaking in front of people, mainly in French (it's, of course, easier for me), so I wrote this blog post like i...