Tagged pointer

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Computer science concept
gptkbp:advantage Improves performance for small objects
Reduces memory allocation overhead
gptkbp:enables Efficient memory usage
Garbage collection optimizations
Type tagging
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Tagged pointer
gptkbp:limitation Limited by pointer size and alignment
May not be portable across architectures
gptkbp:purpose Store additional information in pointer value
gptkbp:relatedTo Smart pointer
Fat pointer
NaN-boxing
Pointer tagging
gptkbp:used_in gptkb:Objective-C_runtime
gptkb:Swift_runtime
Programming languages
Smalltalk implementations
Memory management
JavaScript engines
Lisp implementations
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Union_(computer_science)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6