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# buckets

An array of pointers to [`Method`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/Method) data structures. This array may contain no more than `mask + 1` items. Note that pointers may be `NULL`, indicating that the cache bucket is unoccupied, and occupied buckets may not be contiguous. This array may grow over time.

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