On Apr 2, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Jordan Rose <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 10:11 , Anna Zaks <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 1, 2013, at 6:44 PM, Jordan Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 1, 2013, at 18:28 , Anna Zaks <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> +        // Note: the last argumet is false here because these are
>>>> +        // non-top-level regions.
>>> 
>>> Typo: "agument".
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is fine for now, but I hope we can kill the three sets of 
>>> regions...they're already a bit hard to follow.
>>> 
>>> - top-level non-const regions (passed to checkRegionChanges and 
>>> checkPointerEscape)
>>> - all non-const regions (passed to checkRegionChanges and 
>>> checkPointerEscape)
>>> - top-level const regions (passed to checkPointerEscape's const variant)
>>> 
>>> - all const regions (we currently don't model this but we might some day)
>>> 
>>> I guess we save a little bit of effort by caching the top-level regions in 
>>> a list instead of extracting them from the CallEvent again,
>> 
>> I did implement the other approach first - where we construct the top level 
>> sets in users when they need them instead of passing them around. The code 
>> looked much more complex and less maintainable. So I've reimplemented this 
>> to let RegionStore populate those regions. I like it much better. Here are 
>> the additional benefits to the one mentioned above:
>>  - This way the abstraction is right - the users rely on the info from 
>> RegionStore invalidation authority, instead of recalculating the top-level 
>> sets themselves.
>>  - Top level regions are not only call arguments, but should also include 
>> "extra invalidated values" (self and this), so their computation is complex.
>>  - If we ever add a new top level region, we don't need to change the logic 
>> in multiple places.
>> 
>>> but I'm not sure it's worth the additional complexity in either 
>>> notifyCheckersOfPointerEscape or checkRegionChanges.
>> 
>> ? With the current approach we added complexity only to RegionStore, instead 
>> of adding it to the users. notifyCheckersOfPointerEscape has to 
>> differentiate between the regions. Hopefully, checkRegionChanges can be 
>> completely removed after we remove the calls to it from RetainCountChecker; 
>> and migrate the checker to use pointer escape callback. After that is done, 
>> none of the checkers will have to reason about the regions. 
> 
> "Top-level regions" doesn't have any actual meaning—it's only used for 
> RetainCountChecker, and when I invented it for that it meant "arguments, plus 
> the receiver I guess". But I see your point that that "plus the receiver" is 
> more work than callers should have to do. Thanks for the explanation of the 
> thought process.
> 
> (Maybe I'd be happier if the top-level and non-top-level sets were tied 
> together in a struct, but that can wait until we support non-top-level const 
> regions.)
> 

Yes, wrapping these in a struct would be better. However, RetainCountChecker 
aside, there is only notifyCheckersOfPointerEscape that consumes the extra 
region (and it does need to know the difference between top-level and not).

> Jordan

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