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> I would say take the shortest path for a quick 4.2 release : revert the change.
> Then, we'll have time to think about how to deal with those obsolete
> binary dumps in 4.3.
> Shouldn't a binary dump be restored in two pass ?
> 1) restore of exact structure (at time of dump) in temporary classes
> 2) mutation to current class sturcture (with ClassBuilder help)
>
> Nicolas
>

OK, I just browsed it: StrikeFontSet are using ReferenceStream.
Didn't SmartRefStream were created for addressing this very problem ?

Nicolas