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by TomatoCo
13 days ago
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You'll see some scripting languages (ab)use this. Where the native "number" type is a 64 bit float and only one NaN bit pattern is a real NaN. The others smuggle a pointer to an object in the lower bits. This way you don't spend any memory overhead indicating if a given variable contains a primitive or an object. |
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