<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Levente Uzonyi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leves@elte.hu">leves@elte.hu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Bert Freudenberg wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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</div></div>Can provide an example?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div><br>