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Stephen Dolan is the author of jq. Found thanks to this tweet [0]: > "A 32-bit integer is currently represented as a 64-bit pointer to a sequence of three 64-b
by pietroppeter 5y ago
Stephen Dolan is the author of jq.
Found thanks to this tweet [0]:
> "A 32-bit integer is currently represented as a 64-bit pointer to a sequence of three 64-bit words. There’s a header, ... the fact that it is a 32-bit integer, and ... the 32-bit integer expanded to fill 64 bits."
apart from the above it is full of interesting comments about memory management in general and specifically about Rust and Ocaml
[0]: https://twitter.com/tarunchitra/status/1479266936387219456 https://twitter.com/tarunchitra/status/1479266936387219456