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Context: I have the heapwalker open, I have selected a class and performed "show in instances view". Use case: When looking through the references of the class to find out who is holding onto the class, I am generally not interested in any "loop" references. Filtering these out would immediately make my job a whole lot easier. Possible solution: provide a checkbox next to the "loop" icon at the bottom right. When the checkbox is de-selected, remove all nodes in the tree where the node is a "loop" node. Also remove any nodes that not longer have children (except for the root node).