Bit by Bit: Why Variable Sizes Shape Your…

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A Bit-Level Analysis of Type Specificity and Its Impact on Memory Allocation, CPU Register Utilization, and Runtime Performance in Systems Programming

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Cole Tobin

May 19

Some compilers will reorder fields in a type for memory packing/alignment purposes.

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Rust does this

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