Re: Potluck - thread safe event loop with await semantics

[Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:09:16 +0000
Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> As regards guile-gnome, I guess the problem may well be to do with the
> operation of the garbage collector.  However I suspect it is caused by
> too eager collection rather than too conservative collection - there
> is no obvious sign of excess memory usage.  Probably the collector
> sometimes frees memory still in use by the wrapper when the wrapper is
> invoked in a multi-threaded context.

And also in a single threaded context.  Oh dear.  This will also
segfault, although it takes a lot longer to do it.

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#! /usr/bin/guile-gnome-2
!#

(use-modules (gnome glib))

(define main-loop (g-main-loop-new #f #f))

(g-timeout-add 100
	       (lambda ()
		 (g-idle-add (lambda () (display "running ") #f))
		 #t))

(display "Starting main loop\n")

(g-main-loop-run main-loop)
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Chris