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		pizlonator 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Green Tea Garbage Collector This is very cool. I've already been using bitvector SIMD for the sweep portion of mark/sweep. It's neat to see that tracing can be done this way. VGF2P8AFFINEQB FTW

jhoechtl 73 days ago [–]

Wut? Oh boy https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/gf2p8affineqb

themafia 73 days ago | [–]

vector, galois field, 2 to the power of 8, affine transformation.

there's also the inverse: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/gf2p8affineinvqb

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