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pointer-provenance
- Jun 17, 2025 Unified Virtual Addressing and How a Pointer Becomes Usable on a Device Why a single address space spanning host and device memory lets an API infer a pointer location from its value, what that inference depends on, and where it fails. gpu computing
- Aug 19, 2024 Pointer Provenance and the Cost of Integer Round-Trips A pointer carries more than an address, and converting it to an integer and back can discard the derivation the optimiser needs to justify its transformations. systems programming