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| | V8 reduced its heap size up to 43%! Learn how in "Pointer Compression in V8"!
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| | In this article, David Spickett talks about how Top Byte Ignore works and how to use it. Read more here!
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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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| This post is part of the Languages Opinion series. Languages opinion - part one - JVM Languages opinion - part two - Rust ??thispost Languages opinion - part three - Javascript and Typescript Welcome back to my mini-series about programming languages. In this post, we will talk about one of the most interesting programming languages that I have seen in a long while: Rust.