From TFA and AndyP's slides it seems to specifically refer to a variant of SSO where, for large strings, a fixed-sized prefix of the string is stored along-side the pointer, in the same location as that fixed-size prefix would be fore SSO strings. This means that strings lacking a common prefix can be quickly compared without pointer-chasing (or even knowing if they are small vs large).
f1shy|1 month ago
aidenn0|1 month ago
magnat|1 month ago
* Reverse polish notation
* Chinese remainder theorem
* Byzantine generals problem
f1shy|1 month ago
masklinn|1 month ago
If anyone ever referred to Apps Hungarian that would be "Simonyi's Wish For A Proper Type System", but nobody ever does.