Hello, I believe that boehm-gc permits to temporarily disable the GC for critical sections?
By a quick look, it seems that ECL does not export such facility right now, but would it be nonsense to eventually allow this for use by rare but specific code sections which should ideally execute as predictably as possible? I guess that custom C or FFI code could do it, but a possible reason to provide this functionality might be for it to be friendler to the ECL runtime than direct GC_disable()/GC_enable() calls, i.e. including any other required implicit code (i.e. ecl_disable_interrupts()/ecl_enable_interrupts())? Of course, if it existed, this could be considered a "dangerous" interface and documented as such... SBCL and some other implementations currently allow to temporarily disable the garbage collector. It's nothing urgent and I don't have a need for it right now, only food for thought. Thanks, -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
