Re: scratch/igc: Implications of MPS being asynchronous

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:55:54 +0000
>> Cc: pipcet@protonmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, gerd@gnu.org,
>>      eller.helmut@gmail.com
>>
>> (IMHO, the code organization is a bit funny here, because
>> garbage_collect() doesn't do what it says on the tin.  I don't think
>> it's worth addressing that right now though.  Maybe it's worth taking a
>> second look after merging.)
>
> If we want to add igc_collect somewhere which is called by
> garbage-collect, we should add it to garbage_collect, because what you
> call "funny" here is quite confusing.  Are there any good reasons not
> to call igc_collect from garbage_collect?

AFAIU, MPS should decide when to GC, not maybe_gc.