Associative Arrays and Interior Pointers

[Sean Kelly]

dsimcha wrote:
> 
> 2.  Other than its abysmal interaction with the current GC and the lack of
> ability to iterate using ranges, the current AA implementation actually seems
> pretty good.  One way to remedy a large portion of the GC issues without a
> massive overhaul of the GC would be to introduce a feature into the GC where a
> block of memory can be flagged as NO_INTERIOR.

Neat idea.  Some GCs (like the Boehm GC) can be set NO_INTERIOR 
globally, but it never crossed my mind to do this per block.  For 
certain data structures, this might be pretty useful.