Show HN: Taking the Column Unreasonably Far

Category: library

Tags: memory-model, data-structure, c-plus-plus, isa, bytecode

Score: 5.3/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 3, Utility: 4)

Acorn is a low-level memory model for the GDSL language, providing a hierarchical data structure (QCol, CCol, Col, Ptr) with features like locking, recycling, caching, and heterogeneous storage. It's an ambitious attempt to build a flexible, performant memory management system from scratch, but documentation is sparse and it's tightly coupled to a personal C++ library.

Target audience: language designers, systems programmers, compiler engineers

Repository: https://goldensystems.ca/GDSL_acorn

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