From: Philippe Wang <lists@philippewang.info>
To: Dmitry Bely <dmitry.bely@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Can GC be BLOCKed?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:14:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45716E43.7050703@philippewang.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90823c940612020204y1f780793yf5d5bc5b1152d39f@mail.gmail.com>
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...
--
Philippe Wang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-02 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-30 0:33 Neal Wang
2006-11-30 3:07 ` [Caml-list] " James Woodyatt
2006-12-01 0:07 ` Neal Wang
2006-12-01 0:38 ` Tom
2006-12-01 9:19 ` Richard Jones
2006-12-01 13:39 ` Dmitry Bely
2006-12-01 23:28 ` Philippe Wang
2006-12-02 10:04 ` Dmitry Bely
2006-12-02 12:14 ` Philippe Wang [this message]
2006-12-02 11:19 ` Richard Jones
2006-12-01 18:53 ` Neal Wang
2006-12-01 19:13 ` Chris King
2006-12-04 9:37 ` Hendrik Tews
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