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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

Sep 18, 2024

whippet progress update: feature-complete!

Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the Whippet embeddable garbage collection library.feature-completenessWhen I started working on Whippet, two and a half years ago already, I was...

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Aug 25, 2024

whippet update: faster evacuation, eager sweeping of empty blocks

Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the Whippet GC library.service updateFor some time now, the name Whippet has referred to three things. Firstly,...

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Aug 19, 2024

javascript weakmaps should be iterable

Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s WeakMap to not be iterable, and we should fix it.story timeA WeakMap associates a key with a...

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Jul 24, 2024

whippet progress update: funding, features, future

Greets greets! Today, an update on recent progress in Whippet, including sponsorship, a new collector, and a new feature.the lob, the pitchBut first, a reminder of what the haps: Whippet...

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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...