Updates to FFI spec: performGC

Alastair Reid alastair at reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk
Wed Sep 11 06:08:08 EDT 2002


> Do you want a stronger wording on what kind of garbage collection is
> to be performed or do we want to keep it deliberately unspecified
> (ie, leave it to the individual Haskell system)?

It'd be nice to say that it has to be a full GC - but I've no idea how
to specify that in a non-operational (i.e., implementation dependent)
way.  We could insert the word 'full' and leave it to people's
imaginations?

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