Re: Subclassing from my own plugin

["Theodore H. Smith" <delete at elfdata dot com>]

On 24 Dec 2006, at 01:52, Jonathan Johnson wrote:

> 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/>) .
I know all about alignment and most other computer fundamentals,  
thank you.
> 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.
Just as I predicted you'd say :)

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