From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T14:27:10+09:00
Subject: Re: performance comparison

well, not managing memory can be a good or bad idea.
Like in previous email.. I wouldn't write a OS in a
interpreted language. Sometime in the future they
might gain different concepts and not need to even
worry about memory management though :) (*wishful
thinking)

I suppose ruby doesn't unless there is a bug in the
code. I can't be 100% sure, there might be unsafe
methods or calls. I would need to learn more about how
the GC acts and the language details.

> Well, there are lots of ways for something to be
> insecure. The data from 
> gets is put into a string, which anyone with access
> to the executing 
> interpreter could intercept and read/modify... I'm
> certainly no expert 
> on security, but I wouldn't think Ruby should ever
> be suceptible to 
> buffer overflows, at least. I mean, isn't that one
> of the nice things 
> about interpreted languages? They kind of protect
> you from that kind of 
> "low-level" memory management.
> 
> - Jamis
> 
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