On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>  On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>> It's more important to be correct than to be fast - and I agree finding
>>> pointers is its main purpose, so your fix looks like an improvement.
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>> Speaking of correctness: the pointer finder does not find an object that
>> is held only by a process. Can we fix this?
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If you're saying how might we do this then it seems to me we can, either by
taking a snapshot of the runnable process at the start of pointer-finder,
or by treating Process instances specially, querying whether a process is
in the run-queue when it is encountered.

 Can provide an example?
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Imagine I changed the background process to allocate some object in a
temporary and hold onto it.  The background process would be the only
referent of this object, and the only referent of the background process is
the run queue.

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> Levente
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-- 
best,
Eliot
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