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Re: Selectable Garbage Collection?

John Tobey <jtobey@channel1.com> writes:

> Better (IMHO) to leave the "high level" gh_ interface the same and
> have each gh_ function call a get_specific() in order to obtain the
> current thread context.

Yeah, that is feasible.  And there may be other solutions as well.

Anyway, we're still far from getting this to work.  E.g., one of the
critical sections I referred to in my previous letter is the mark and
sweep phases themselves...  It will require quite a lot of changes to
the garbage collector to prevent evaluation during GC in a
preemptively threaded system (but it is possible---I have a solution
which I believe is OK).

/mdj