From: Meinrad Recheis <meinrad.recheis@...>
Date: 2008-03-14T21:01:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Hongli Lai <hongli@plan99.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

the name cow_friendly could be misinterpreted by some cow boys ^^. how
about calling it #copy_on_write_friendly or even better
#supports_copy_on_write ?

cow, fork ... *chuckle*
-- henon