On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 7:03 AM Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 12:18 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but would it be possible to solve > > that last point with an immortal arena [1] from which immortal objects > > could be allocated? None/True/False could be allocated there, but so > > could anything that is more dynamic, if it's decided as important > > enough. It would still be possible to recognize them by pointer (since > > the immortal arena would be a specific block of memory). > > That's an interesting idea. An immortal arena would certainly be one > approach to investigate. > > However, I'm not convinced there is enough value to justify going out > of our way to allow dynamically allocated objects to be immortal. > Keep in mind that the concept of immortal objects would probably not > be available outside the internal API, and, internally, any objects we > want to be immortal will probably be statically allocated. > That makes sense. Thanks.
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