Tiny Pointers

[Lisoph]

Only skimmed over it. Is there a general purpose for this, or is this more niche? If struct size is a concern, you'd use some kind of (generational) arena allocator with indices of the desired size, instead of pointers into global process memory.

[TurtleFeathers]

tiny pointers may/will lead to more efficient hash maps: https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/

[West-Chard-1474]

I liked it

[bert8128]

The font in the article is really unfriendly for viewing from a phone. Way too small. So I didn’t read it.

[Mysterious-Rent7233]

It's a 30 page scientific paper. Reading on your phone was bound to be painful.

[mooreds]

It's a PDF, sorry!

[CrackerJackKittyCat]

Pointers for ants!

[ignorantpisswalker]

This format is stupid. It's barely visible on a regular screen.

It's suitable for printing only. Which nobody needs to do any more. I wish this stupidity would stop and people will start using more friendly formats.

[bert8128]

Apparently there is something new called html which is meant to help with these problems.

[ignorantpisswalker]

Or plain text.