[bitc-dev] Removing INNER_REF

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Jonathan S. Shapiro dies 06/03/2008 hora 15:03:
>   1. Introduce a new REF type FAT-REF. REF can be assigned to FAT-REF
>      but FAT-REF cannot be assigned to REF.
> 
>      I do not like this. I mention it for completeness.

Is the fat reference an object that both contains the inner reference
and the pointer to the containing object? This seems to be a fairly
simple solution in every manner. It doesn't seem to cost much (IIUC, it
would move inner references from one to two words...), and need
modifications neither to the GC nor the allocator.

Curiously,
Pierre
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