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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Use "Insert Count" rather than "Largest Reference" (#2111)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Wed, 09 January 2019 02:27 UTC

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martinthomson commented on this pull request.



>  
 ~~~~~ drawing
-             Base Index
-                 |
-                 V
+ Required
+  Insert
+  Count      Base
+    |         |
+    V         V

https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/08/indices-point-between-elements/ is what I'm thinking.  That meaning that you can get something like this:

```
| a | b | c | d |
        ^

c is index 0 normal
b is index 0 post-base
both use the same pointer
```

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