I am not familiar with the capabilities of the compiler but is there any optimization reason to prefer references as well? Like the compiler may be able to figu

I am not familiar with the capabilities of the compiler but is there any optimization reason to prefer references as well? Like the compiler may be able to figure out an efficient way to keep a referenced object ‘nearby’ for subsequent function calls that also refer to the object, maybe in some register or reordering which code gets run when. Whereas sometimes the compiler might not be able to do something like that with a pointer, incurring mem access costs. Hm slightly tangential but could you install some kind of page-fault handler on a reference such that the control flow jumps on write back to the last place it was accessed? Not that you’d want to do that in the real world, but it would be an interesting “pub-sub” type control flow..