[Ecls-list] Temporarily disabling the GC

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net>wrote:

>
> 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?


Hi Matthew, could you please file a support request with this? It can be
done, but the interface is deprecated and now there is instead a wrapper
function with a callback that supposedly is called with locks on and no GC.
I would have to investigate it.


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