On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Nat <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with keeping Isolate around with Handle is that Isolate > reference is a pointer not a handle. There is no guarantee that Isolate life > will be longer than that of handles and it won't be easy to know whether the > pointer to Isolate still valid or not.
A problem arguably worse than an invalidated pointer is a freed address which was subsequently re-used by the allocator to allocate a different object (possibly an Isolate, possibly not). i.e. a hard-to-find bug. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
