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From: David N. Smith <dnsmith@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE
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Date: 1996/11/13
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>jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz) writes:
>
>>> execution of a program.  And in a Self program, classes never exist at all
>>> (not even in the program text).

It is interesting to note that the optimizer creates things that look a
lot like classes so that clones of objects don't take up a lot more space
than necessary. But they are fully hidden.

Dave

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