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Comment by AaronAPU

2 months ago

Reminds me of using the highest bit(s) of 64-bit ints to stuff auxiliary data into lockfree algorithms. So long as you’re aware of your OS environment you can enable some efficiencies you couldn’t otherwise.

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eru  2 months ago

That's why OCaml has 63 bit integers by default: the language itself uses the last bit to help with GC.

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