From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Aaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>
Cc: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org, unicorn-public@yhbt.net
Subject: Re: [ruby-core:99185] [Ruby master Bug#17023] How to prevent String memory to be relocated in ruby-ffi
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:04:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200716000401.GA15291@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <647A6735-04C8-4410-A71A-307A2390CFBD@gmail.com>
Aaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 15, 2020, at 4:35 PM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> > Btw, does rb_gc_register_mark_object pin? A quick glance at
> > gc.c tells me it doesn't, and I'll need to revert commit
> > 2a6cb76d5010cb763ef5a2c305728465d15eb7c9 in unicorn:
> > https://yhbt.net/unicorn-public/20181226050857.6413-1-e@80x24.org/
>
> Yes, it does pin. I’m not super proud of this code, but here
> is where objects passed to rb_gc_register_mark_object get
> pinned:
>
> https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/c2a6295ec04a191c689d22254ac1ad5d665e27ad/vm.c#L2307-L2320
Ah, missed that, thanks. So all is well in unicorn (for now).
> I don’t know why the mark object array is an array of arrays
> (I assume so as not to waste space in the array buffer?).
> Maybe this could be a more friendly data structure.
It seems so, since rb_ary_push can double the internal buffer.
Anyways, ko1 made commit
a617afc643e17cea5c1960a60adcd5ffb25fdfe2 r46714
Maybe it can be flattened nowadays and rely on GC.compact
to reclaim unused space.
/me goes back to hacking in Perl 5...
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2020-07-15 23:35 ` [ruby-core:99184] [Ruby master Bug#17023] How to prevent String memory to be relocated in ruby-ffi Eric Wong
2020-07-15 23:49 ` [ruby-core:99185] " Aaron Patterson
2020-07-16 0:04 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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