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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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| | "Undefined Behavior" often has a bad reputation. But what, really, is Undefined Behavior, and is it actually that bad? In this blog post, I will look at this topic from a PL perspective...
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses the challenges and strategies for programming languages to achieve performance comparable to C, focusing on aliasing information, compile-time computation, runtime optimization, and instruction-level parallelism.
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| Day Four brings the joys of arrays and structs