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		funny_falcon on Nov 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Float Self-Tagging In fact, CRuby successfully combined “Self Tagging” with pointer tagging. Here's the commit: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/b3b5e626ad69bf22be3228f8...

SonOfLilit on Nov 29, 2024 [–]

Seems legit.

Linked commit contains code for rotating tagged floats so bits 60..62 go to the least significant positions, and a comment about a range of unboxed floats between 1.7...e-77 and 1.7...e77, plus special casing 0.0.

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