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  2. Tagged pointer - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, a tagged pointer is a pointer (concretely a memory address) with additional data associated with it, such as an indirection bit or reference count.This additional data is often "folded" into the pointer, meaning stored inline in the data representing the address, taking advantage of certain properties of memory addressing.

  3. Laser pointer - Wikipedia

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    Red (635 nm), blueish violet (445 nm), and green (520 nm) laser pointers. A laser pointer or laser pen is a (typically battery-powered) handheld device that uses a laser diode to emit a narrow low-power visible laser beam (i.e. coherent light) to highlight something of interest with a small bright colored spot.

  4. Pointer (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    A pointer a pointing to the memory address associated with a variable b, i.e., a contains the memory address 1008 of the variable b.In this diagram, the computing architecture uses the same address space and data primitive for both pointers and non-pointers; this need not be the case.

  5. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Codon is a language with an ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler, that (AOT) compiles a statically-typed Python-like language with "syntax and semantics are nearly identical to Python's, there are some notable differences" [149] e.g. it uses 64-bit machine integers, for speed, not arbitrary like Python, and it claims speedups over CPython are usually ...

  6. List of laser applications - Wikipedia

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    Another military use of lasers is as a laser target designator. This is a low-power laser pointer used to indicate a target for a precision-guided munition, typically launched from an aircraft. The guided munition adjusts its flight-path to home in to the laser light reflected by the target, enabling a great precision in aiming.

  7. Windows API - Wikipedia

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    All memory pointers are 64-bit by default (the LLP64 model), so porting Win32-compatible source code includes updating for 64-bit pointer arithmetic. [27] WinCE is the version in the Windows CE operating system.

  8. Win32 Thread Information Block - Wikipedia

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    That pointer can be used with pointer arithmetic or be cast to a struct pointer. Using Microsoft Windows SDK or similar, a programmer could use an inline function defined in winnt.h named NtCurrentTeb which returns the address of the current Thread Information Block as NT_TIB *. [5] Alternative methods of access for IA-32 architectures are as ...

  9. x32 ABI - Wikipedia

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    [10] That same day, Linus Torvalds replied with a concern that the use of 32-bit time values in the x32 ABI could cause problems in the future. [11] [12] This is because the use of 32-bit time values would cause the time values to overflow in the year 2038. [11] [12] Following this request, the developers of the x32 ABI changed the time values ...