From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, Amirouche <amirouche@hypermove.net>
Subject: Re: (guix git) and guile-git finalizers.
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:47:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cucpoe846lk.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h8zliddr.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:44:48 +0200")
On Mon 12 Jun 2017 14:44, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> writes:
> Maybe the right answer is to disable auto finalization and call
> run-finalizers as described here :
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Foreign-Object-Memory-Management.html#Foreign-Object-Memory-Management
>
> However I can't find guile counterparts for those libguile functions.
Nice sleuthing!
If you want to manually handle finalization at 'safe' points from
Scheme, guardians are the things to use. Add your "finalizable" object
to a guardian, and periodically "pump" the guardian to see if anything
is finalizable; you can run the finalizer there.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-13 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-12 12:44 (guix git) and guile-git finalizers Mathieu Othacehe
2017-06-13 8:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-13 16:41 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-06-19 16:01 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-06-22 11:40 ` Andy Wingo
2017-07-01 10:16 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-07-01 12:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-01 14:33 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-06-13 8:47 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2017-06-13 16:39 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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