Lazy peer API.

runtime/vm/heap.h

Index: runtime/vm/heap.h
diff --git a/runtime/vm/heap.h b/runtime/vm/heap.h
index 0c0a444dabc34ebfbfe441fd718079d3daab81fd..0418a9da5591ae46085dfb1b8b24ad2da996288b 100644
--- a/runtime/vm/heap.h
+++ b/runtime/vm/heap.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ namespace dart {
 
 // Forward declarations.
 class Isolate;
+class Object;

[siva, 2012/09/14 00:03:46]

Why is this forward declaration needed? I don't see any reference to Object in
thew new code.

[cshapiro, 2012/09/15 01:23:41]

This forward reference for Object is noise.  Removed.

 class ObjectPointerVisitor;
 class ObjectSet;
 class VirtualMemory;
@@ -156,6 +157,17 @@ class Heap {
 
   static const char* GCReasonToString(GCReason gc_reason);
 
+  // Associates a peer with an object.  If an object has a peer, it is
+  // replaced.  A value of NULL disassociate an object from its peer.
+  void SetPeer(RawObject* raw_obj, void* peer);
+
+  // Retrieves the peer associated with an object.  Returns NULL if
+  // there is no association.
+  void* GetPeer(RawObject* raw_obj);
+
+  // Returns the number of objects with a peer.
+  int64_t PeerCount() const;
+
  private:
   Heap();