large objects and GC

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sat, 17 May 2008 00:58:41 +0300, BCS <ao at pathlink.com> wrote:

> I think this is based on the assumption that lots of systems only ever use the base pointer so why not let the programer leverage that?

Yes, but in lots of cases this is not the case. Changing this would break many things, while it can be worked around with wrapper objects.

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