From ea889742d75e68bb7ecbdf81ecbcddc12fd10616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Holk <eric.holk@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 15:02:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Using unsafe pointers to share closures.

This prevents the tons of copying problems we were having before, which means we only have a 5x slowdown now.
---
 src/test/bench/graph500-bfs.rs | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/test/bench/graph500-bfs.rs b/src/test/bench/graph500-bfs.rs
index 0f6b82c5d852..43768c2b3e32 100644
--- a/src/test/bench/graph500-bfs.rs
+++ b/src/test/bench/graph500-bfs.rs
@@ -540,8 +540,11 @@ fn map_slices<A: send, B: send>(xs: [A], f: fn~(uint, [A]) -> B) -> [B] {
         while base < len {
             let slice = vec::slice(xs, base,
                                    uint::min(len, base + items_per_task));
+            let f = ptr::addr_of(f);
             futures += [future::spawn() {|copy base|
-                f(base, slice)
+                unsafe {
+                    (*f)(base, slice)
+                }
             }];
             base += items_per_task;
         }