Is calling GC.gc() concurrently from multiple threads allowed? How about GC.gc(false)? I know the GC is stop-the-world, so doing that would diminish parallelism, I just want to know whether it’s correct to do so.

`GC.gc` thread-safety?

Oscar_Smith September 5, 2022, 9:58pm 2

This will be threadsafe. Running GC already stops all other threads, so it has the necessary barriers already.

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