What would be the consequence of implementing interfaces as fat pointers ?

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 30.03.2014 01:57, schrieb deadalnix:
> All is in the title.
>
> This is becoming increasingly the norm in new languages. It is much
> better in term of performances (it avoid cascaded loads to call methods,
> which can be really costly on modern CPUs), make object themselves smaller.
>
> Would implementing them that way break D code ? What would be the extent
> of the breakage ?

As a nice side effect, debuggers could directly use the object pointer 
inside the fat interface pointer and don't have to reimplement D's 
casting routines.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut