NOTE: This post is quite outdated, stuff has changed since i wrote this. While you can somewhat safely ignore the alterations for increased address space of entities, the Property store has changed in a fundamental way. Please find the new implementation here. Ah, the physical layer! Storing bits and bytes on spinning metal, away from the security and comfort of objects and high-level abstractions
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