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|    Re: Run-time representation of classes    |
|    30 Jan 09 10:57:13    |
      From: armelasselin@hotmail.com              > adding versioning is not much more than this, namely it involves the       > addition of a table of "versions" (each version context then holding the       > various offset tables, ...). each instance then containing a version       > number       > along with the class pointer (applying a group of changes to an object       > creates a new version context, and a new version number).              It could have been built into each object in the other 'direction' also, I       mean having each instance contain a 'versioned_class' pointer, and then each       'versioned_class' having its 'version+class' information, you would win one       int per instance and one class_desc.version_array[version] indirection.              just my 2 cents       Armel              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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