From: Lukasz Stafiniak <lukstafi@gmail.com>
To: Jean Krivine <jean.krivine@gmail.com>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] out-of-the-heap 'a arrays ?
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 20:06:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJMfKEW7aWPm1M+xCQ60PmSZxD6Mb8e+AuhnZmik7PuHYgUkQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEQoNCmmht1CvRUQnops2zT9ufX4XQ=rgyXwdSSbY6Y_-fDUXg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Jean Krivine <jean.krivine@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I understand there is a module Ancient which I can use to tell
> the GC to ignore my array but, if I understand well, it would only work if
> I use my array in a read only fashion.
>
You cannot have pointers from Ancient heap to OCaml heap unless you do weak
pointer management (e.g. in the finalizer of a value). Otherwise I think
you're fine with modifying Ancient.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-05 19:07 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 [this message]
2013-11-05 19:15 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-11-06 9:19 ` Jean Krivine
2013-11-06 14:20 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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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