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Can GC be BLOCKed?

Neal Wang
- James Woodyatt
  - Neal Wang
    - Tom
    - Richard Jones
      - Dmitry Bely
        
        Philippe Wang
        
        Dmitry Bely
        
        Philippe Wang
        
        Richard Jones
      - Neal Wang
        
        Chris King
        
        Hendrik Tews

Date:	2006-12-02 (12:15)
From:	Philippe Wang <lists@p...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Can GC be BLOCKed?



Dmitry Bely a écrit :

> Sure, I know that. But C thread and OCaml thread can run in parallel.
> Why not to do gc in another thread when you are in C and there is no
> job for OCaml?


Be careful with that...

The global mutex does exist because when the GC occurs, some objects can 
be <<moved>> ! (then their addresses change)
So it's dangerous to compute in parallel...

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  Philippe Wang