[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Plan/discussion/communication around new object format

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 21:32:10 UTC 2012


> and once we could have per-object properties.. and lazy become, things
> like Magma will get a HUGE benefits straightly out of the box.

It's true -- one of the busiest occupations for Magma is to maintain
its two-way [object<--> oid] dictionary mappings.  Dropping that in
favor of a fast per-object #oid attribute would be like dropping an
anchor.

It seems like per-object attributes could provide some amazing
leverage in other domains too.  +1.


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