> 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…
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.…
> 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…
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.…