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In college, my database professor once told us about an object-oriented database that handled SIGSEGVs and created objects on the fly that were supposed to exist but didn’t (exact details are fuzzy)

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Maybe it was ObjectStore (read about it on Wikipedia). Pretty clever, I thought.

Ooh that may be it. For everyone else, checkout this side deck (start at side 22): http://www.odbms.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ObjectStoreI...

probably related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_swizzling

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