Far classes

[Andrew Haley]

On 6/26/24 09:54, John Rose wrote:
 > You could also use a joint encoding [1] on more than one bit,
 > so as have encode more near classes in the same number of
 > bits.

[1] https://cr.openjdk.org/~jrose/jvm/joint-bit-encodings.html

Joint Bit Encodings is a kind of Arithmetic Code, isn't it? We don't
have to think in terms of bits in the encoded class at all, just to
say that if an encoded value is less than N, it's an offset to the
real Klass*. Otherwise, subtract N from the encoded value and use
that.

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