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I would say that pointer colouring is a type of pointer tagging. AFAIK the colouring in ZGC represents different states. So the memory page mappings rely on the pointer having one colour (1 of the 4 bits set) whereas pointer tagging is the term for the general concept of encoding information in pointers.


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