From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jean Krivine <jean.krivine@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukasz Stafiniak <lukstafi@gmail.com>, caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] out-of-the-heap 'a arrays ?
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:20:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131106142048.GC10737@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEQoNCk6wYD5BEMFaq0NCtYsgCVp+Jxbepk=0xwRSBcBh=yyFQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:19:42AM +0100, Jean Krivine wrote:
> It seems that Ancient requires the values that are moved to be immutable
> full point. I understand that there is a problem if you have pointers from
> Ancient Heap to Ocaml Heap. But what about pointers that are internal to
> the Ancient Heap ? Am I talking nonsense? Sorry if I do.
You can definitely create pointers between ancient objects. You
just have to be really careful about what you're doing.
It's not too hard to understand -- I would suggest reading
the implementation.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-06 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-05 17:07 Jean Krivine
2013-11-05 19:06 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-11-05 19:15 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-11-06 9:19 ` Jean Krivine
2013-11-06 14:20 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2013-11-06 9:44 ` Francois Berenger
2013-11-06 13:10 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-11-06 13:39 ` Jean Krivine
2013-11-06 14:19 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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