>>>>> On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 01:54:20 +0100, Luís Oliveira said: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Stelian Ionescu <sione...@cddr.org> wrote: > > SBCL never disables GC globally, and I don't think that CCL, ECL or ABCL > > do that either. > > http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw61/FLI/html/fli-94.htm#pgfId-1070272 > > has no mention of GC, so it would seem that among SMP Lisps Allegro is the > > only one to do sophisticated stuff. CMUCL and Clisp are currently > > single-threaded so GC is implicitly disabled during foreign calls. > > Precise confirmation would be nice -- a test perhaps -- would be nice.
I confirm it for LispWorks -- entering foreign code never prevents the GC from running in another Lisp thread if needed. -- Martin Simmons LispWorks Ltd http://www.lispworks.com/
