On 23.03.2010, at 16:01, Lukas Renggli wrote:
> 
>>> Just an idea: we could get rid of compact classes, which would give us
>>> additional 6 bits (5 bits from the compact class index plus 1 bit from the
>>> header type because there would only be 2 header types left). This would
>>> increase the identity hash values from 4096 to 262144. In a PharoCore1.0
>>> image there are 148589 instances of compact classes, hence this would cost
>>> 580k. Or, we could just add an additional word and use the spare bits from
>>> the old identity hash for other stuff, e.g., immutability ;)
>> 
>> I like the first idea, we could even have the 17 continuous bits for
>> identity hash the 1 separate bit for immutability.
> 
> Yes please, I love it :-)
> 
> Lukas

Well, someone should code it up, and then lets's see macro benchmarks :)

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