fill the vector with zeroes, even when it is not needed (as for
platforms with conservative GC or for arrays of unboxed objectes) and
is performed later explicitely.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#28
+a. Accessing raw slots in structure instances is more inefficient than
+it could be; if we placed raw slots before the header word, we would
+not need to do arithmetic at runtime to access them. (But beware:
+this would complicate handling of the interior pointer).
+
+b. (Also note that raw slots are currently disabled on HPPA)
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