kaushiks

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   by kaushiks 15y ago

   I switched for a slightly different reason. In my case, some of the bleeding edge branches of projects I cared about weren't even building on OSX. Also, system default versions of software like GDB aren't quite as recent as their Linux coun
2. 32.▲
   by kaushiks 15y ago

   That is not true. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "no typing system" so I'll go ahead and assume what you likely meant - no static type system. Optimizing code written in a dynamically typed language is a pretty well understood probl
3. 33.▲
   by kaushiks 15y ago

   This is also a common technique used by modern Javascript implementations. A much less common and slightly more interesting approach (to me) is NaN boxing - that packs tags into unused NaN bit ranges of doubles that are encoded per the IEEE