A look at The Machine

Posted Sep 3, 2015 7:04 UTC (Thu) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
In reply to: A look at The Machine by gioele
Parent article: A look at The Machine

> In addition I wonder in how many places one can already find the trick "I will use these extra 16 bits for my own business"

Since a while, tagging implementations tend to (mis-) use some lower bits out of the realisation that a pointer "to something useful" is divisible by four (gives you tow bits) or even by eight (gives you three).

Guile Scheme is an example, but surely not the only one.

Perhaps time has come to address memory in bigger chunks than 8 bit bytes?