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.