From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-02-05T17:59:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10367] Re: RFC: RubyVM (long)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:10366] Re: RFC: RubyVM (long)"
    on 01/02/05, Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|* No garbage collection. (the idea is that we should write Ruby's GC in
|this subset so we cannot presuppose GC in the subset. Besides we'd lose
|performance. However, a q for matz: Does the interpreter itself make use
|of GC heap mem for internal data structures?)

Yes, a lot.  Every scopes and several others are GC target objects.

							matz.