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At the machine layer, the machine is doing symbol manipulation on bit patterns. Whether those symbols ultimately mean anything is entirely up to the eventual ob
by shadowgovt 3y ago
At the machine layer, the machine is doing symbol manipulation on bit patterns. Whether those symbols ultimately mean anything is entirely up to the eventual observer of the end result.
The concept of "types" breaks down at this level much like the concept of "a dog" breaks down at the atomic level.
- baq 3y agoIt's an implementation detail of popular architectures nowadays. It doesn't have to be like this. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture