[squeak-dev] The Primitive: I am not a number- I am a named prim! - SqueakPeople article

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Mon Jun 30 19:03:14 UTC 2008


On 30-Jun-08, at 11:52 AM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> I agree, but I cannot follow with what you see can be done with the  
> saved bits. You say "The 10 released bits can be used for a variety  
> of purposes including marking immutable objects, fixed address  
> objects, proxy objects etc.". However, none of those three examples  
> seem to be related as you only spare bits in compiled methods, but  
> not in the general object header. What have I missed?

Nothing. I am an idiot. I was confusing different headers. Ignore  
everything after "variety of purposes"....


tim
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