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Andy Wingo

Andy Wingo

Hacker.

North Carolina (USA)

I enjoy practicing aikido in my free time – and hacking, of course!

POSTS

Feb 9, 2026

six thoughts on generating c

So I work in compilers, which means that I write programs that translate programs to programs. Sometimes you will want to target a language at a higher level than just,...

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Feb 6, 2026

ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel

Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the Wastrel ahead-of-time WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!hello, worldThe quickest demo I have is that you should check out and...

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Jan 5, 2026

pre-tenuring in v8

Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code that touched pre-tenuring: allocating objects directly in the old space instead of the nursery. I knew...

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Nov 13, 2025

the last couple years in v8's garbage collector

Let’s talk about memory management! Following up on my article about 5 years of developments in V8’s garbage collector, today I’d like to bring that up to date with what...

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Media

Wingo on Wasm

Sep 2, 2025 Transcript & Links

The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

Apr 10, 2025

Toots

updating guix for the first time in a couple months. it builds webkit twice, a fresh llvm toolchain, firefox once…...

Commits

[Chromium V8] [platform][api] Refactor PlatformSharedMemoryHandle. Avoid possibility of type confusion with in...

[Chromium V8] [platform] Remove default values for parameters of virtual overrides These implementations shoul...

[Chromium V8] [isolate-groups] Free code range before reservation is freed In pointer-compression configuratio...

[Chromium V8] [isolate-groups] Attach CodeRange to IsolateGroup, not process For multi-cage configurations, we...