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		coldtea on May 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ointers: A library for representing pointers where... This "trick" has been used since the dawn of time in major platforms

adql on May 8, 2024 [–]

I dunno, pointers were kinda small on 8/16 bit platforms

coldtea on May 9, 2024 | [–]

Smalltalk for example used 1 bit (or 2 bit?) tagged pointers

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