On Dec 23, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
Why do you do this? Because you don't trust RB to work properly? Or
why?
I don't like the idea of wasting a single byte. It all adds up you
see. Sometimes I may waste a byte or two though ;) but only when it
adds up to a better practice in other areas of the app or my
development process.
Perhaps you should read up on data alignment (such as this excellent
article by a friend of mine: <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-dalign/
>) .
While I don't recall what our current data alignment strategies are
for subclassing, it certainly would not be good to rely on any current
behaviors because they may change.
-Jon
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Jonathan Johnson
jonj at realsoftware dot com
REAL Software, Inc.
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