4 ms·This "trick" has been used since the dawn of time in major platformsby coldtea 3y agoThis "trick" has been used since the dawn of time in major platformsadql 3y agoI dunno, pointers were kinda small on 8/16 bit platformscoldtea 3y agoSmalltalk for example used 1 bit (or 2 bit?) tagged pointers