I don’t have an answer about how to do this with Boehm. However, here are two GCs which seem to have enough control and encapsulation to have a totally independent GC context per-thread. Lua’s Garbage Collector – MIT Steve Dekorte’s libgarbagecollector – BSD
Gtk does not call any signal handler from a non-main thread. Any worker thread you found in a Gtk application interacts with the main thread via a message queue. You can see that in the Glib source. For example, see the implementation of g_dbus_connection_signal_subscribe() and schedule_callbacks() in gdbusconnection.c.(A worker thread calls g_source_attach(…, subscriber->context), where the … Read more