The plan for the stable ABI is to have a word-sized field in the native object header that can be used for reference counting. So far, we have had a fixed-size 64-bit field for that purpose. Greg Parker's work on the new reference counting implementation (#5282 sets the stage for this, but we still need to shrink the size of that field on 32-bit targets.
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bob-wilson commentedMar 24, 2017
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The plan for the stable ABI is to have a word-sized field in the native object header that can be used for reference counting. So far, we have had a fixed-size 64-bit field for that purpose. Greg Parker's work on the new reference counting implementation (#5282 sets the stage for this, but we still need to shrink the size of that field on 32-bit targets.
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