From: Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@gmail.com>
To: Bardur Arantsson <spam@scientician.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Cost of register_global_root (was: Stopping a value from getting GC'd)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:31:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aee06c9e050817183110b38537@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dduidi$bsa$1@sea.gmane.org>
On 8/16/05, Bardur Arantsson <spam@scientician.net> wrote:
> Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> >
> > Now my question is, since my Thread.t is abstract, once I pass my
> > value to my Thread.create, there'll soon be nothing referencing the
> > closure for the thread that's visible by the GC.
> >
> > If I'm correct, the GC would then be allowed to reclaim this closure.
> > So how do I stop the GC from doing that?
> >
>
> register_global_root (or as some others would say: RTFM).
One thing that the FM doesn't mention is how expensive it is to
register a global root. Can I register thousands of them or will
there be performance problems?
Cheers,
-n8
--
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-18 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-17 4:12 [Caml-list] Stopping a value from getting GC'd Jonathan Roewen
2005-08-17 5:36 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-08-18 1:31 ` Nathaniel Gray [this message]
2005-08-18 2:40 ` [Caml-list] Cost of register_global_root Alain Frisch
2005-08-18 5:19 ` Nathaniel Gray
2005-08-18 3:57 ` [Caml-list] Cost of register_global_root (was: Stopping a value from getting GC'd) Markus Mottl
2005-08-18 17:13 ` skaller
2005-08-18 10:51 ` Richard Jones
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