From: Kurt Stephens <ks@...>
Date: 2011-09-23T07:12:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:39674] Re: What is the role of rb_objspace_t in gc.c?

On 9/8/11 3:22 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> (11/09/08 12:44), Kurt Stephens wrote:
>> What is the role of rb_objectspace_t and the pointers to it inside gc.c?
>
> It's a feature for the future, i.e., MVM.
What is MVM?
> And it's not "bothering", but was improving the performance actually on my environment.
> Probably, a global variable in ix86 PIC mode is much slower than a local variable.
Why do we need a singleton at all?
-- KAS