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Adrian Alic

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I'm an experienced software engineer contributing to the IC consensus protocol. I'm interested in distributed systems, unikernels, multithreading and low-latency networking.

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Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig

Proper support for sum types or tagged unions have become table stakes for systems programming languages. However, they can incur a lot of memory fragmentation that's not trivial to avoid without good support for metaprogramming. This post goes into Zig's powerful comptime feature, and how it allows some radical…