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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
To: Likai Liu <liulk@bu.edu>
Cc: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] PortAudio on ocaml
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:57:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9368FA18-B7AE-11D7-8073-0003930FCE12@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F5B3E8D7-B784-11D7-BB67-000393C43D24@bu.edu>

> I think garbage collection inside the callback is probably okay, if it 
> doesn't do other fancy things, such as dispatching signals or 
> influence thread scheduling. What does O'Caml runtime do during 
> garbage collection?

Garbage collection inside the callback is probably OK, if you can 
guarantee
that the callback does not occur during garbage collection, or any other
operation that assumes that memory doesn't move under its feet.

-- Damien

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-16 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-14 20:55 Likai Liu
2003-07-15  0:37 ` SooHyoung Oh
2003-07-15  2:12   ` Likai Liu
2003-07-16  9:55 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-07-16 11:59   ` Likai Liu
2003-07-16 16:57     ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2003-07-16 17:46       ` Likai Liu
2003-07-18 13:32         ` Damien Doligez
2003-07-19 13:37       ` Likai Liu
2003-07-22 11:17         ` Damien Doligez

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