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For questions related to managing memory in programming languages, whether manually or automatically.

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Is there a downside to using offsets instead of raw pointers in a virtual machine?

Say I'm designing a virtual machine for a bytecode compiler/interpreter, using C as the implementation language. Some kind of “tagged” representation of values is simplest for this language, where ...
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