# On arrays with inline elements (vs pointer indirection)

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/on-arrays-with-inline-elements-vs-pointer-indirection/88211 "2022-10-04T07:02:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/on-arrays-with-inline-elements-vs-pointer-indirection/88211/8 "2022-10-04T08:03:48Z")

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That is a really old thread, I think [v1.5](https://julialang.org/blog/2020/08/julia-1.5-highlights/#struct_layout_and_allocation_optimizations) (August 2020) fixed that issue. But there [are issues](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rfc-ann-restacker-jl-a-workaround-for-the-heap-allocated-immutable-problem/35037/8) that Restack seems to still help with, just not the stated purpose of stack-allocating “immutable” structs containing heap references (quotes because many non-`mutable` `struct` are in fact semantically mutable, like views).

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