Which leads me to ask a question that I've been pondering for a while -- do we actually need to use a fullblown Array PMC to hold the object meta-information and attributes? Couldn't we save a level of indirection (and one PMC header per object) by using a List structure directly?
Nope, we don't need it. We can go one less level of indirection than List, too, since we don't need the info it provides either, as the entries are guaranteed to be PMCs. We can hang a bare PMC buffer (well, OK, PArray, but they should be the same thing) off the object, and directly poke at its internals.
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