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Technique 2--Displays

• The idea: Put the static links in a separate stack called a display

• The entries in the display are pointers to the ARIs that have the variables in the referencing environment

• Represent references as (display_offset, local_offset), where display_offset is the same as chain_offset

• Advantage: constant-time nonlocal access