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From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The Bytecode Interpreter...
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:26:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D229B681-47A5-4FEC-9957-F34F9E310D02@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130585342.15589.124.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Oct 29, 2005, at 13:29, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> Major GC: In principle, you can stop it at any time. You should  
> probably
> do so when the interrupt occurs. And then? The ISR must not allocate
> memory in this case, because the memory manager cannot give it to  
> you in
> this moment (major GCs are triggered from minor GCs, so the minor heap
> is currently full).

Actually, in OCaml a major GC slice is triggered right _after_ each  
minor
GC, so the minor heap is always empty when the major GC is running.

-- Damien


      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-10 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-21 10:01 Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-21 11:27 ` David MENTRE
2005-10-21 22:24   ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-21 23:49     ` Oliver Bandel
2005-10-22 21:33       ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-22  0:32     ` Jon Harrop
2005-10-22  0:39     ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-10-23  1:03   ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-23 10:21     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-10-24  5:38       ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-24  6:13         ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-10-24  6:48           ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-22  0:39 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-26  0:33   ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-26  9:56 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-26 10:20   ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-27 14:12   ` Damien Doligez
2005-10-28 21:41     ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-29 11:29       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-10-29 15:22         ` skaller
2005-10-30  0:41           ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-10 10:26         ` Damien Doligez [this message]

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