From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-08-23T23:35:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Very strange GC behaviour

On 23/08/05, Geert Fannes <Geert.Fannes@ikanconsulting.com> wrote:
> Can these registers be cleared without doing much damage before doing
> the garbage collection, thus providing a less conservative GC.start
> function (perhaps with a parameter true or false for easy selection)? I
> found a function rb_gc_start in gc.c. I'm guessing this can best be done
> before the rb_gc call. Or are things more complicated as they seem...
> 

Why do you need this. Maybe you are tackling the problem from the
wrong angle if you need to rely so much on the implementation of the
GC. If you describe your problem maybe someone here can find a less
dependant solution.

regards,

Brian

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