Hello, and other things

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John Rose a écrit :
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> That would work very nicely on the JVM also.  You could use
> the sun.misc.Unsafe API (with great care!) to handle punning
> among memory-resident primitive types.  You must avoid
> using Unsafe to pun between primitives and references, because
> there is absolutely no way to control when the GC might want
> to move things around underneath your code.
>
>   
Yop, the last time i've tried to read a reference as an int (a kind of 
fast hashcode)
the construction of the JIT IR (which is typed) crashed before
the GC was triggered.

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