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    1. this is where things start to get interesting. i just fixed a bug to allow instance method invocation on value types, but the straightforward implementation results in suboptimal bytecode #jn
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
  1. …in reply to @ra
    the compiler generates *two* temporary local variables, one to pass a reference to initobj for the constructor, and another to pass a reference to call. an optimization pass would collapse these two local variables into one and reuse the reference, but the were not that smart yet