Message from JavaScript discussions

October 2018

— Ohh, I had an idea, I wonder what happens if I use arrays with magic number indexes

—

{
  type: "call",
  functor: [[Function]]
  thisArg: null,
  args: []
}

versus

["call", [[Function]], null, []]

— That way it is always known where the data is in memory

— Rather than traversing a graph to find it

— HMMMMM

— Https://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/speed/static-mem-pools/

— Ayyy

— for (const argName of this.argSlots) - is this always ordered?

— Yes, the order is maintained because that array represents the invocation operator's argument list

—

// Type 1: Invocation Tokens,
  // Wrap userland functors and any operands needed to invoke them.
  call: new HzToken("call",
   "functor",
   "thisArg",
   "args"
  ),

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— So those 3 args under the "call" arg (which is just setting the type of the token) are directly taken from the argument list of set

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— token.set(functor, thisArg, args);