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Re: Spare memory
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Spare memory |
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Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:46:21 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> But I can answer this one: the GC can only be called at a few safe
> points, so calling it from memory_full might be unsafe. With the
> conservative stack scanning, we can probably safely run the GC in many
> more cases, but when using the GCPROs, the only safe spots are when
> `eval' can be called.
Even without GCPRO it may be unsafe, since GC can compact strings.
Andreas.
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