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>On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 16:33, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>>Why are struct procs forced to be type-stable?
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>>>
>>I have forgotten.. but they did..
>>Peter also knew at one stage and he too has forgotten :-)
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>
I vaguely remember it was something to do with some other structure 
still hanging
off the proc.
Maybe the vm or something really disgusting like that.
possibly it was something like needing the page tables to hang around
or something but that can't be right as they are taken apart.... aren't 
they?