Updates to FFI spec: performGC

Alastair Reid alastair at reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk
Tue Sep 10 10:05:03 EDT 2002


I think the thing to do is add the existing performGC to the standard
(perhaps giving it an hs_ prefix in the process) and leave development
of an extended version of the function for when the GHC folk (or
anyone else with a generational collector) decide they want a
forcefulness argument.  Come that day, we'd define:

  void performGC(void) { performPartialGC(0); }

(or whatever it is you do to force a full collection).

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