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Thanks for explaining that term. That sounds really bad indeed. Maybe this is way too technical, but representing them as stack pointers was unfeasible?

jorkadeen on July 10, 2025 [–]

The JVM (and other VMs for that matter) do not grant direct access to the stack.

But the good news is that the common case incurs no overhead.

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