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igc: PolicyShouldCollectWorld

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, 79346 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#79346: igc: PolicyShouldCollectWorld
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:54:54 -0400

> AFAIU, this makes GC-on-idle run off an idle timer, instead of using
> internal implementation in C, is that right?
>
> If so, I'm not very happy doing this, as the default mechanism.
> Timers are hard to reason about, when other timers, let alone other
> Lisp threads, are present, and the result might be more complex
> system, which is harder to understand and maintain.

Is it necessary to have "GC-on-idle"?
If not, I think it's OK to have it implemented only in Lisp.


        Stefan

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