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These uses do not distinguish between a null pointer and
nil
, and dropping theNil
reduces the space used (everyIO::Buffered
now occupies 16 less bytes on 64-bit systems).The same effect could also be achieved by supporting nilable pointers at the ABI level, similar to how
Proc?
has the same binary representation asProc
. That approach is not without its own problems: