From 4aab28411a45d1ae31b0892225b391bc3cbac103 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Nolan <tesses@tesses.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 12:58:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Replace time-based GC with allocation-count trigger, migrate
 all Create factories to GCList::Create(), fix VFSPath root path, reorder
 TObject variant

---
 src/vm/gc.cpp | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/vm/gc.cpp b/src/vm/gc.cpp
index e4e6ebf..b3cb524 100644
--- a/src/vm/gc.cpp
+++ b/src/vm/gc.cpp
@@ -113,9 +113,8 @@ void GC::Start() {
     this->thrd = new Thread([this]() -> void {
         while (this->IsRunning()) {
             this->BarrierBegin();
-            while (this->allocs < ALLOC_THRESHOLD)
-                this->cond.Wait(
-                    &this->mtx); // your wrapper around pthread_cond_wait
+            while (this->IsRunning() && (this->allocs < ALLOC_THRESHOLD))
+                this->cond.Wait(&this->mtx);
             this->allocs = 0;
             std::vector<THeapObject *> to_delete;
             this->Collect(to_delete);