radical ideas about GC and ARC : need to be time driven?

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On Sunday, 11 May 2014 at 20:18:23 UTC, luminousone wrote:
> I thought x86_64 pointers are sign extended? or does that just 
> apply to real memory pointers and not virtual memory pointers?

With typed slices you can use one 64 bit base pointer and two 32 
bit indexes instead of two pointers.