Github user GCHQResearcher1337 commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/876#discussion_r202445268
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gremlin-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tinkerpop/gremlin/process/traversal/traverser/B_LP_NL_O_P_S_SE_SL_Traverser.java
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+package org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.traverser;
+
+import org.apache.commons.collections.map.ReferenceMap;
+import org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.Step;
+import
org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.traverser.util.LabelledCounter;
+
+
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Stack;
+
+public class B_LP_NL_O_P_S_SE_SL_Traverser<T> extends
B_LP_O_P_S_SE_SL_Traverser<T> {
+
+ protected Stack<LabelledCounter> nestedLoops;
+ protected ReferenceMap loopNames = null;
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Yep :) magic. I think at garbage collection the entry will get removed, or
there will be on access checks of the validity of the reference. I've used
something similar before (can't quite remember what) but didn't want to
introduce an extra dependency, but luckily I found ReferenceMap in
org.apache.commons.collections which was already included and seems to do this.
I wasn't quite sure if these references would be safe to 'attaching' as I
don't fully understand this, but I think attaching only moves a traverser to a
different part of the graph so the References/counters should still be safe.
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/a80eb84169048ed74c5ad27ebc4d12944fd0136a/gremlin-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tinkerpop/gremlin/structure/util/Attachable.java#L62
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