KHB: Synthesis: An Efficient Implementation of Fundamental Operating Systems Services

Insane?

Oh.

So, er, I should be ashamed that I did almost exactly that (via a custom 
allocator layered atop big mmap()ed hunks) in C about a year ago? (Well, 
it was more like a twisted sort of RCU: I'd construct a new instance that 
was a copy of the old one with a zero reference count, then changing 
pointers in the new instance's VMT-analogue, translating the object's data 
into a new representation at the same time. The old instance got 
reference-zapped when nobody was executing methods via those pointers 
anymore.)

(yes, there were pressing reasons. It was a bundle of fun, as well. :) )