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omelancon
2y ago
> Maybe I misunderstand, but isn't that a similar idea to what I just described? Adding an offset to "rotate" the ranges of the exponent by a segment... Yes it is similar. It seems to me that there really isn't that
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omelancon
2y ago
Hi, I'm one of the authors of the paper. Thanks for your questions and comments! There are many reasons why 3-bit tags work well in practice. Importantly, it allows aligning heap objects on 64-bit machine words. Dereferencing a tagged