This patch changes things so that dynamic atoms and static atoms have distinct
implementations. This is a step towards allowing dynamic atoms and static atoms
to have different layouts in memory, which will allow static atoms to be
represented more compactly.
Specifically, the patch does the following.
- It renames AtomImpl as DynamicAtom and PermanentAtomImpl as StaticAtom, and
the latter is no longer a subclass of the former. This required duplicating
some methods from the former into the latter: ScriptableToString(),
ToUTF8String(), ScriptableEquals(), IsStaticAtom(). (This duplication will
disappear in the future if the representations of dynamic atoms and static
atoms diverge. Indeed, SizeOfIncludingThis() is already different in the two
classes.)
- It replaces all mentions of "permanent"/"non-permanent" atoms with
"static"/"dynamic".
- In ~DynamicAtom() it removes the check that causes gAtomTable to be deleted
when it becomes empty. This will only happen at shutdown and so doesn't seem
useful.
- It documents better various things, especially the basics of the
dynamic/static split, the transmutation of dynamic atoms to static atoms, and
the details of the SizeOf functions.
--HG--
extra : rebase_source : dbf903012e70ebf1a43de1e1088db1bc1b8dd4f4
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