comptime

Explains how Zig's comptime and type reflection enable creating struct-of-arrays (SoA) data structures like MultiArrayList, which improve cache performance in high-performance applications.

This article explores using Zig's comptime to create tagged union subsets, inspired by Mitchell Hashimoto's work, and applies the technique to a MyST parser's AST traversal.

Mitchell Hashimoto demonstrates how to use Zig's comptime to create subset types of tagged unions, enabling compile-time safety without exhaustive case handling.

Mitchell Hashimoto explains how to use Zig's comptime feature to conditionally disable code at compile time, comparing it to approaches in C and Go.