Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> This does not change my understanding.
>> Locking should prevent manipulations with object data over the time span
>> the code expects the object to be unchanged.
>
> That could defeat GC, should Emacs decide to run it while the lock is
> in place.

May you elaborate?

>From my understanding, GC is now called in specific places in subr code.
If we consider scenario when multiple Emacs threads are running and one
is requesting GC, it should be acceptable to delay that request and wait
until all other threads eventually arrive to GC call. Once that is done,
GC is safe to run.

Of course, GC calls must not be done while Object lock is in place. But
that's not too different from the existing requirement for GC calls -
they are not sprinkled in arbitrary places.

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