Computer Science > Computation and Language
[Submitted on 24 Oct 2023]
Title:Tips for making the most of 64-bit architectures in langage design, libraries or garbage collection
View PDFAbstract:The 64-bit architectures that have become standard today offer unprecedented low-level programming possibilities. For the first time in the history of computing, the size of address registers far exceeded the physical capacity of their this http URL a brief reminder of the possibilities offered by the small size of addresses compared to the available 64 bits,we develop three concrete examples of how the vacant bits of these registers can be this http URL these examples, two of them concern the implementation of a library for a new statically typed programming this http URL, the implementation of multi-precision integers, with the aim of improving performance in terms of both calculation speed and RAM this http URL second example focuses on the library's handling of UTF-8 character this http URL, the idea is to make indexing easier by ignoring the physical size of each UTF-8 this http URL, the third example is a possible enhancement of garbage collectors, in particular the mark \& sweep for the object marking phase.
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From: Dominique Colnet [view email] [via CCSD proxy][v1] Tue, 24 Oct 2023 08:54:23 UTC (132 KB)
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