VMRecordIterator(MemPointerArray* arr) : _itr(arr) {
    MemPointerRecord* cur = (MemPointerRecord*)_itr.current();
    MemPointerRecord* next = (MemPointerRecord*)_itr.peek_next();
    while (next != NULL) {
      assert(cur != NULL, "Sanity check");
      assert(((SeqMemPointerRecord*)next)->seq() > ((SeqMemPointerRecord*)cur)->seq(),
        "pre-sort order");

      if (is_duplicated_record(cur, next)) {
        _itr.next();
        next = (MemPointerRecord*)_itr.peek_next();
      } else {
        break;
      }
    }
  }
  // get next record, but skip the duplicated records
  virtual MemPointer* next() {
    MemPointerRecord* cur = (MemPointerRecord*)_itr.next();
    MemPointerRecord* next = (MemPointerRecord*)_itr.peek_next();
    while (next != NULL) {
      assert(cur != NULL, "Sanity check");
      assert(((SeqMemPointerRecord*)next)->seq() > ((SeqMemPointerRecord*)cur)->seq(),
        "pre-sort order");

      if (is_duplicated_record(cur, next)) {
        _itr.next();
        cur = next;
        next = (MemPointerRecord*)_itr.peek_next();
      } else {
        break;
      }
    }
    return cur;
  }
  virtual MemPointer* current() const {
#ifdef ASSERT
    MemPointer* cur_rec = _itr.current();
    if (cur_rec != NULL) {
      MemPointer* prev_rec = _itr.peek_prev();
      MemPointer* next_rec = _itr.peek_next();
      assert(prev_rec == NULL || prev_rec->addr() < cur_rec->addr(), "Sorting order");
      assert(next_rec == NULL || next_rec->addr() > cur_rec->addr(), "Sorting order");
    }
#endif
    return _itr.current();
  }