SquirrelJME/SquirrelJME

# 2019/12/08

## 07:50

Having references would be useful in the JVM.

## 07:53

So `Reference` will make things much easier to implement, at least to not
needlessly create tons of objects when loading classes and I can keep some
references around. Things will go faster and memory will be reduced which
is what I want really. It also greatly will simplify things too. Only thing
to consider is that with reference counting, how do I want to handle these
things? I think I am going to need a chunk bit on an object which says if
an allocated object is held by a reference, that way I can do the
referencing magic stuff. Another thing is that there will need to be some
kind of reference lock or similar. Actually... what if I had for every
allocation a special access object or similar, like a chain of sorts? The
only problem is that then I will need to handle references that get cleaned
up because their pointers would be stale. But `Reference` would be the one
that adds itself to the special pointer area, so it would have to remember.
But it does get complicated still this way and memory does leak.

## 10:11

I am just going to wait until it is needed, then implement it. Also when it
comes to class loading, I need to get it working first so I have something.