Re: Doubling up pointers
Richard Brooksby <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:51:05 +0100
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On 2011-09-14, at 18:09, Jon Harrop wrote: > In the context of taking a snapshot of the topology of the heap, I'm > wondering if anyone has considered or tried replacing each pointer = with a > pair of pointers and having the mutators work on the first/second of = each > pair while the GC traverses the second/first of each pair? How would this be different from collecting a snapshot of the heap? (I = can think of some things but I wonder if you could elaborate.)