On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <s...@eros-os.org> wrote: > Bennie is asking how frequently interior pointers are likely to be used. > It's a good question. It's hard to answer, because we don't actually have > the feature available, so nobody can code with it. What we can say is that > it's a pattern that is used a lot in systems codes.
FWIW, I had at least once considered interior pointers to structures nested in the object as potentially more POLA friendly than passing a this pointer as an alternative to distinct object types which might have a mincing effect. that style would certainly seem to increase interior pointer numbers... _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list bitc-dev@coyotos.org http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
