From: Evan Weaver <evan@...>
Date: 2008-01-08T03:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Manual Memory Management

Python supports 'del reference', which decrements the reference
counter by one and removes the variable name from scope. I would
really like to see that in Ruby.

Evan

On Jan 7, 2008 12:20 PM, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:49:30 +0900, Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would only like to add that RMgick for example provides free method to
> > release large images if they are not needed, and for me that's good
> > thinkg.
>
> That's only possible because RMagick is responsible for all references
> to the image.
>
> > solution to the above problem might be finding a way to assign Qnil to
> > all references before forcefully removing actuall value.
>
> Generally that isn't possible because there may be references from the C
> stack.
>
> -mental
>
>
>



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Evan Weaver
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