> CRuby uses this technique on 64bit platforms for years.
What do you mean by "this technique"?
The paper says that CRuby uses tagged objects but could benefit from the innovation being discussed here, a specific bit pattern used to tag floats. See the following quote:
> Therefore, implementations that represent floats as tagged pointers could benefit from it with minimal implementation effort. Such popular implementations include CPython [11], CRuby [32] and Google’s V8 [33].
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.
What do you mean by "this technique"?
The paper says that CRuby uses tagged objects but could benefit from the innovation being discussed here, a specific bit pattern used to tag floats. See the following quote:
> Therefore, implementations that represent floats as tagged pointers could benefit from it with minimal implementation effort. Such popular implementations include CPython [11], CRuby [32] and Google’s V8 [33].