Finalizers and incremental GC

Finalizers and incremental GC

[Po Lu]

In my incremental garbage collector, finalizers are currently run every
time a finalizer is swept.  This means every time Emacs enters garbage
collection during the sweeping phase, only a small amount of finalizers
are run.

Would it make more sense to run all the finalizers at once, after all
white objects are swept and a garbage collection cycle completes, like
the current garbage collector?

I can't seem to find any code in the wild actually using finalizers.

Re: Finalizers and incremental GC

[Stefan Monnier]

> Would it make more sense to run all the finalizers at once, after all
> white objects are swept and a garbage collection cycle completes, like
> the current garbage collector?

It shouldn't matter, so which ever is easiest or most efficient is
probably the better option.  A secondary concern is to run the finalizers
as soon as possible.

IOW, what you do now is probably the better option,


        Stefan