On Tuesday 08 July 2003 06:33, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> Right - firstly, I'll define an "Compound object" to be a "hard
> segment", or "group of objects with an explicit owner". Compound
> objects seem to have lots of potential; they are big enough to add
> features that would otherwise be considered too much overhead for
> single objects.

I have recently read David Reed's thesis and in section 6.7 he suggested 
grouping objects into "pages". My interest is in supporting this kind 
of thing in hardware.

-- Jecel