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Russ Cox authored
The list elements are already being allocated out of a single memory buffer. We can drop the Link* pointer following and the memory it requires, replacing it with index operations. The change also keeps a channel from containing a pointer back into its own allocation block, which would create a cycle. Blocks involved in cycles are not guaranteed to be finalized properly, and channels depend on finalizers to free OS-level locks on some systems. The self-reference was keeping channels from being garbage collected. runtime-gdb.py will need to be updated in order to dump the content of buffered channels with the new data structure. Fixes #1676. R=ken2, r CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/4411045
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