On 2014-04-22 17:52:27 +0000, "Steven Schveighoffer"
<[email protected]> said:
Even doing it the way they have seems unnecessarily complex, given that
iOS 64-bit was brand new.
Perhaps it's faster that way due to some caching effect. Or perhaps
it's to be able to have static constant string objects in the readonly
segments.
Apple could always change their mind and add another field for the
reference count. The Modern runtime has non-fragile classes, so you can
change the base class layout breaking ABI compatibility.
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