[ANN] malloc'd ByteArrays

[Brian Rice]

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On Dec 12, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Todd Fleming wrote:

> This bothers me (I don't like arbitrary limits):
>  static void* memory_areas [SLATE_MEMS_MAXIMUM];
>  static int memory_sizes [SLATE_MEMS_MAXIMUM];
>
> Why not use a pointer instead of a handle? Of course this will  
> require the saveActions hook, but we will need that anyway so  
> bitmap data won't be lost.

I don't want to give the Image a pointer for safety reasons, and also  
because it's a pain to have to deal primarily with 32-bit or 64-bit  
pointers in tagged-pointer space. There's also two words of header  
overhead for every such value in the image.

Probably one extra primitive to provide the pointer when needed is  
the easiest thing. I wanted to be able to do this without involving  
the image at all, just using a C API, but control-flow-wise, this is  
problematic.

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- -Brian
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