On 06/22/2011 03:50 PM, Alex Gaynor wrote:
Given that a virtual is forced only right before it escapes, and the
external call would flush the heap cache, what's the value there?

Not all external values flush the heap cache. A lot of external calls just read things, don't write.

Also, being used as an argument of an external call is just one reason for an object to escape.

Carl Friedrich
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