Re: [Caml-list] Can GC be BLOCKed?

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:07:51PM -0800, Neal Wang wrote:
> Thanks for your help.  But your solution only work for a function
> which allocates
>  memory of fixed size. Unfortunately, the atomic function, which
> cannot be interrupted by GC, read input data from external channels
> and the memory needed to store the input data is not determined ahead.
> The official interface of GC doesn't not provide a  way to stop GC. Is
> there a backdoor such that we can use to stop GC?

I can't see how this would work.  The minor heap is a fixed size (32K
or something) and when this is used up, you _have_ to do a minor
collection.

Can you tell us what the problem is that you're trying to solve?

I've only seen two cases where I'd want to stop the GC from running:
(1) During quasi real-time operations (eg. a single frame in a game) --
this can be solved by making the heap large enough and running the GC
at scheduled points.  (2) When the heap is larger than physical RAM --
this is solved using our 'Ancient' module.

Rich.

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