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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

Nov 28, 2022

are ephemerons primitive?

Good evening :) A quick note, tonight: I’ve long thought that ephemerons are primitive and can’t be implemented with mark functions and/or finalizers, but today I think I have a...

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Oct 31, 2022

ephemerons and finalizers

Good day, hackfolk. Today we continue the series on garbage collection with some notes on ephemerons and finalizers.conjunctions and disjunctionsFirst described in a 1997 paper by Barry Hayes, which attributes...

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Oct 22, 2022

the sticky mark-bit algorithm

Good day, hackfolk! The Sticky Mark-Bit Algorithm Also an intro to mark-sweep GC 7 Oct 2022 – Igalia Andy Wingo A funny post today; I gave an interna

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Oct 3, 2022

on "correct and efficient work-stealing for weak memory models"

Hello all, a quick post today. Inspired by Rust as a Language for High Performance GC Implementation by Yi Lin et al, a few months ago I had a look...

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Tweets

the most annoying thing about electric cars are the myriad apps & web sites for public charging stations. “my favorite...

the webassembly gc proposal will ship soon (i guess 4-6 months but it could be 12). then there will be...

this assertion is true but different standards-conforming clients will parse in different ways. exercise for reader: link parsings in replies...

an orange web site commenter says, regarding https://t.co/x2TJ5EKNxn, “Most of this blog is worth reading.” tx, i guess

Commits

[Chromium V8] [stringrefs] Fold wtf8 policy into instruction set Instead of having e.g. `string.new_wtf8` that...

[Chromium V8] [stringrefs] Implement string.as_iter, stringview_iter.next Bug: v8:12868 Change-Id: Ice7134d0ad...

[Chromium V8] [stringrefs] Implement stringview_iter.slice Feature complete! Bug: v8:12868 Change-Id: I772707...

[Chromium V8] [stringrefs] Implement stringview_iter.advance, stringview_iter.rewind Bug: v8:12868 Change-Id: ...