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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

May 9, 2025

a whippet waypoint

Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun...

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Feb 14, 2025

tracepoints: gnarly but worth it

Hey all, quick post today to mention that I added tracing support to the Whippet GC library. If the support library for LTTng is available when Whippet is compiled, Whippet...

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Feb 10, 2025

whippet at fosdem

Hey all, the video of my FOSDEM talk on Whippet is up: Slides here, if that’s your thing.I ended the talk with some puzzling results around generational collection, which prompted...

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Feb 9, 2025

baffled by generational garbage collection

Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a research-epistle-publish loop. Today, though, I come not with answers, but with...

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Media

Wingo on Wasm

Sep 2, 2025 Transcript & Links

The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

Apr 10, 2025

Toots

it has been a while, but whoo, new bloggery: “wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly” https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/10/30/wastrel-a-profligate-implementation-of-webassembly

@PaulDavisTheFirst did you see this, it is amazing https://issues.chromium.org/issues/382005099

matthew fluet is a phd student, according to his web page https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/fluet/index_old.html

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...