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Disabling the OCaml garbage collector

Raj Bandyopadhyay
- Basile STARYNKEVITCH
  - Raj
    - Alain Frisch
      - Thomas Fischbacher
        
        Raj
    - Thomas Fischbacher
    - Xavier Leroy
      - Raj
        
        Thomas Fischbacher
        
        Raj Bandyopadhyay
        
        Jon Harrop
    - Frédéric_van_der_Plancke
- Thomas Fischbacher

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Alain Frisch <alain@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Disabling the OCaml garbage collector

Raj wrote:
> The issue for me is that I need to be able to modify mutable objects in 
> OCaml (eg. array-modification in-place) from both OCaml and C/Python. 
> However, the OCaml GC moves things around while the execution is in 
> C/Python and this crashes my program.

Are you sure?

The OCaml GC is triggered only when Caml memory blocks are allocated 
(from Caml or C code) or when you call it explicitly.

-- Alain