Feb. 12, 2002
5:09 a.m.
[Guido]
... (I'd add this to PEP 280 but I'll wait for Tim to shoot holes in it first. :-)
At first sight this scheme made sense and was very appealing. Alas, I've been staring at the computer non-stop for 11 hours, my eyes are losing focus, and I just remembered I forgot to eat today. IOW, you'll have to wait for Tuesday to get shot <wink>. For now, I really liked that the indirection vector fills in adaptively, to speed accesses that are actually getting made. I don't know that that's an objective advantage, but I loved the image.