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Created Sep 22, 2018 by David Feuer@treeowlReporter

Break up the stable pointer table

I see no obvious reason for the stable pointer table to be a single array. Indeed, that leads to all sorts of complications. It smells to me like the simplest thing would be to make it a chain of blocks, and make a StablePtr# a real pointer to the relevant entry. No relocation ever!

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