Re: [Caml-list] GC and interoperability with C

["Alexander V. Voinov" <avv@quasar.ipa.nw.ru>]

Hi Xavier,

Xavier Leroy wrote:
> 
> > I've played a bit with this, and I have an observation that huge amount
> > of time is spent on remove_global_root(a).
> 
> I'm not surprised :-)  Currently, remove_global_root is implemented by
> linear search in a singly-linked list...
> 
> I believe you're the first to really stress-test remove_global_root;
> most OCaml applications just register a dozen external roots and never
> remove them.
> 
> I'll improve the implementation when I find some free time.

Thank you. At least I'm glad to know that you do not dismiss the very
idea as described and the like: there are many various [data structure]
packages in C/C++, floating around, and in a part of cases it would be
better just to interface them than to reimplement.

As an intermediate solution, if you implement a kind of
'remove_many_roots', taking an array of pointers, I will adapt my code
to make use of this serialization. That is I will accumulate this array
until it overflows and then process in one shot.

Alexander
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