Andy Wingo

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North Carolina (USA)

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

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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...

Oct 30, 2025

wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly

Hey hey hey good evening! Tonight a quick note on wastrel, a new WebAssembly implementation.a wasm-to-native compiler that goes through cWastrel compiles Wasm modules to standalone binaries. It does so...

Jul 8, 2025

guile lab notebook: on the move!

Hey, a quick update, then a little story. The big news is that I got Guile wired to a moving garbage collector!Specifically, this is the mostly-moving collector with conservative stack...

Jun 11, 2025

whippet in guile hacklog: evacuation

Good evening, hackfolk. A quick note this evening to record a waypoint in my efforts to improve Guile’s memory manager.So, I got Guile running on top of the Whippet API....

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Wingo on Wasm

Sep 2, 2025 Transcript & Links

The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

Apr 10, 2025

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Dec 19, 2025

happy chase-lev patent expiry day to all those who celebrate!!!!!!!!! please enjoy a straightforward implementation in C https://github.com/wingo/whippet/blob/main/src/shared-worklist.h

Dec 18, 2025

linux is a mess, but at least our rickety edifice is not built on this garbage https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winternl/nf-winternl-ntcreatefile

Commits

Nov 27, 2025

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

Nov 26, 2025

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

Jul 4, 2024

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

Jul 1, 2024

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Andy Wingo

North Carolina (USA)

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the last couple years in v8's garbage collector

wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly

guile lab notebook: on the move!

whippet in guile hacklog: evacuation

Media

Wingo on Wasm

The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

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[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...

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