Andy Wingo

Hacker.

North Carolina (USA)

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

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Mar 7, 2025

whippet lab notebook: untagged mallocs, bis

Earlier this week I took an inventory of how Guile uses the Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW) garbage collector, with the goal of making sure that I had replacements for all uses lined...

Mar 4, 2025

whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs

Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting Whippet into Guile, and there are some open questions.inventoryI started...

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...

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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The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

Apr 10, 2025

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Apr 30, 2025

i have been co-maintaining guile (poorly, sporadically, all the caveats etc) for almost 20 years at this point and i...

Apr 30, 2025

snatches of this tune come to me every time the lilacs are indeed in bloom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdm-dUIg9D8and yet, the corn-tops are...

Apr 25, 2025

new bloggery: partitioning ambiguous edges in guile https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/04/25/partitioning-ambiguous-edges-in-guile

Apr 24, 2025

regarding https://cr.yp.to/papers.html#cryptoint, as a recent player of paper plinko, i respect the game of djb just, like, putting a pdf...

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Jul 4, 2024

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

Jul 1, 2024

[Chromium V8] [isolate-groups] Attach CodeRange to IsolateGroup, not process For multi-cage configurations, we...

Jun 28, 2024

[Chromium V8] [isolate-groups] Simplify non-pointer-compression configuration. NFC Without pointer compression...

Jun 25, 2024

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Andy Wingo

North Carolina (USA)

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whippet lab notebook: untagged mallocs, bis

whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs

tracepoints: gnarly but worth it

whippet at fosdem

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The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

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[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...

Andy Wingo

North Carolina (USA)

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