Proposal: Large arrays

[Tom Hawtin]

Jeremy Manson wrote:

> Instead of bytecode changes, this could be implemented as an array of
> arrays for the moment (even though that is kind of ugly).

Without a language change it could be implemented as classes (one class 
per primitive + one for references). With intrinsics this could be made 
as fast as if it were a language change (although class files would be 
larger).

Tom Hawtin