Re: threads branch changes

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Hi,

> * Vladimir Tzankov <igmnaxbi@tznvy.pbz> [2008-08-06 17:56:25 +0300]:
>
> As a result in order the threads to advance in their execution - all
> of them should "cons" (should do allocate_xxxx) from time to time -
> otherwise the GC will not run and some threads will be blocked there.

it just means that we need more heap & gc safe points.
e.g., funcall, eval, apply interpret_bytecodes are all gc safe points.
begin/end_system_calls should also be gc safe points.


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