30 Jun
2001
30 Jun
'01
7:30 p.m.
Is it true that objects in memory never change relative position? The garbage collector only slides objects and never swaps them. If this characteristic is likely to remain. I would like to surface the oops in the image so we can sort objects by them and do binary searches on them. I find this useful for creating a LargeIdentityDictionary that has a hash table of 4096 entries (exhausting the 12 bits of identity hash) with buckets in each entry that hold its elements in sorted oop order. The objects in the buckets can then be search using binary search on their oops. What do you think? -Anthony