Re: scratch/igc: Implications of MPS being asynchronous

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  pipcet@protonmail.com,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  gerd@gnu.org,  eller.helmut@gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:41:59 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Or what am I missing?
>> 
>> igc_on_idle
>
> Thanks, but that doesn't seem to call compact_font_caches?  Is there a
> reason not to do that?

Not that I remember. Could be an oversight.

> Also, any reason not to have garbage-collect call igc_on_idle?  I'm
> thinking about a long Lisp processing which wants to trigger GC more
> frequently than MPS does automatically.  Does that make sense?

Could make sense, I suspect. If it should be in garbage-collect is an
open question.