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From: dee@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Handles and Virtual Memory
Message-ID: <51710@XAIT.Xerox.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 18:23:50 GMT
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Reply-To: dee@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Donald Eastlake)
Organization: Xerox Advanced Information Technology, Cambridge, MA
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The funky hardware instruction addressing modes on the 68030 that look
like they are designed to take a handle and an offset should make
possible extremely efficient implementations of language features
designed to defer dereferncing of handles.
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