Aaron Patterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jul 15, 2020, at 4:35 PM, Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Btw, does rb_gc_register_mark_object pin?  A quick glance at
> > gc.c tells me it doesn't, and I'll need to revert commit
> > 2a6cb76d5010cb763ef5a2c305728465d15eb7c9 in unicorn:
> > https://yhbt.net/unicorn-public/[email protected]/
> 
> Yes, it does pin.  I’m not super proud of this code, but here
> is where objects passed to rb_gc_register_mark_object get
> pinned:
> 
>   
> https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/c2a6295ec04a191c689d22254ac1ad5d665e27ad/vm.c#L2307-L2320

Ah, missed that, thanks.  So all is well in unicorn (for now).

> I don’t know why the mark object array is an array of arrays
> (I assume so as not to waste space in the array buffer?).
> Maybe this could be a more friendly data structure.

It seems so, since rb_ary_push can double the internal buffer.
Anyways, ko1 made commit
a617afc643e17cea5c1960a60adcd5ffb25fdfe2 r46714
Maybe it can be flattened nowadays and rely on GC.compact
to reclaim unused space.

/me goes back to hacking in Perl 5...
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