[Gc] GC_get_bytes_since_gc locks

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Andy Wingo <wingo at pobox.com> wrote:

> But I think you are mistaken here, that call is not in a pre-GC hook, so
> there's no deadlocking problem.  Or are you saying that I should be
> doing these
>
> > ./libguile/gc.c:  heap_size      = GC_get_heap_size ();
> > ./libguile/gc.c:  free_bytes     = GC_get_free_bytes ();
> > ./libguile/gc.c:  bytes_since_gc = GC_get_bytes_since_gc ();
>
> within an alloc lock?
>

No, I am saying that the call to GC_get_total_bytes() is not data safe,
because internally this function is not protected by a lock! :-) In other
words, you are mixing functions that lock and guarantee you a data safe
value, with a call that does neither of those. Wouldn't it be way more
efficient if you could use the lock just once? Or none at all should it be
safe to do that?

Juanjo

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