https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/185431 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/185431 Basically it is a way to push primitive values of

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/185431 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/185431 Basically it is a way to push primitive values of any type and pointers into a 64-bit double, to reduce memory/cache footprint in dynamic languages.