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flavio81 on Aug 29, 2017 | parent | favorite | on: The Limits of Copy-On-write: How Ruby Allocates Me...

> it's the novel way

This is usual in Lisp (compilers/implementations) and i wouldn't be surprised if it was invented on the seventies once large (i.e. 36-bit long) registers were available.

junke on Sept 4, 2017 [–]

This seems to be relevant ;-)

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-09-04-lisp-number...

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