This extension (mostly) implements Magento 2(c) DataObject or Varien_Object in Magento 1.
Implementation is working via a bit customised PHP-CPP.
I added implementations for $object->array['propery'] = assignment.
https://github.com/kirmorozov/PHP-CPP
It operates directly with PHP internals.
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