[Adium-devl] 1.4a1 planning

[Peter Hosey]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:34:19, David Smith wrote:
> After Evan's commits this morning adding listobject proxies (hooray)  
> …

On that subject: What *are* these list object proxies?

The commit message says:

> Added a proxy for AIListObject which will allow us to unique the  
> 'items' shown within a contact list without duplicating AIListObject  
> instances.  AIListObject->AIProxyListObject is a one-to-many  
> relationship; an AIProxyListObject knows its one AIListObject, and  
> an AIListObject knows its many AIProxyListObjects.

but I don't see how having multiple proxy objects per real object  
helps you unique anything.

What problem is this class solving?