Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Guido van Rossum]

> PMCs will bear more than a passing resemblance to PyObjects, when
> implemented. The main difference is that we won't use the indirection
> of a PyTypeObject, but will use a vtable pointer directly.

Ah, but a PyTypeObject isn't an indirection.  It *is* the vtable (with
a suitable header to make it look like an object).  Python objects
aren't all the allocated same size.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)