From: Hongli Lai <hongli@...99.net>
Date: 2008-03-14T20:25:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector

Daniel DeLorme wrote:
> So the GC method could be dynamically changed to cow-friendly just 
> before doing a Process.fork... very nice!

Actually, I'm thinking about requiring the script call "GC.cow_friendly 
= true". Most scripts do not fork, and when they do, they usually don't 
use it as a means to save memory.