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Had to look this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_swizzling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_swizzling
by cl0ckt0wer 7y ago
Had to look this up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_swizzling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_swizzling
- petergeoghegan 7y agoThe term pointer swizzling isn't familiar to me, but it seems to be the same technique by which variable-width tuples on a page are accessed via a fixed width item pointer array (sometimes called an indirection vector) within most database systems.