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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

Oct 3, 2024

preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier

When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you need to keep a...

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Sep 26, 2024

needed-bits optimizations in guile

Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you.numbers and representationsFirst, though, some background. Guile’s numeric operations are defined over the complex numbers,...

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Sep 18, 2024

whippet progress update: feature-complete!

Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the Whippet embeddable garbage collection library.feature-completenessWhen I started working on Whippet, two and a half years ago already, I was...

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Aug 25, 2024

whippet update: faster evacuation, eager sweeping of empty blocks

Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the Whippet GC library.service updateFor some time now, the name Whippet has referred to three things. Firstly,...

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Commits

[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...

[Chromium V8] [isolate-groups] Simplify non-pointer-compression configuration. NFC Without pointer compression...

[Chromium V8] [isolate-groups] Without pointer compression, just one isolate group There is no sensible meanin...