NaN boxing or how to make the world dynamic - Blog by Piotr Duperas
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Have you ever wondered how dynamic typing, like in JS, works under the hood? There are some obvious solutions in this matter, however, there is also one which is more than brilliant.
  • rattboi
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    2 years ago

    This is cool! I was familiar up to but not including NaN boxing. Love all the stuff about encoding your own NaN values, and how you can fit a pointer into the NaN double.