> Note that the "safepointing" logic is exactly the same thing that's needed in refcounting to atomic replace a field.
No it's not, not even close.
> This article glosses over what I consider the hardest part - the enter/exit functionality around native functions may that block (but which must touch the allocator).
Yeah, that part is hard, and maybe I'll describe it in another post.
No it's not, not even close.
> This article glosses over what I consider the hardest part - the enter/exit functionality around native functions may that block (but which must touch the allocator).
Yeah, that part is hard, and maybe I'll describe it in another post.
Look for `filc_enter` and `filc_exit` in https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/blob/deluge/libpas/src/l...