From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-18T18:14:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15362] Re: how to use garbage collection relyably?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15333] how to use garbage collection relyably?"
    on 01/05/18, Andreas Riedl <viisi@chello.at> writes:

|how is garbage collection intended to be used?
|
|is
|
|  VALUE x = rb_ary_new();
|  VALUE y = rb_ary_new();
|
|ensured to work correctly?

Yes.  Ruby uses conservative garbage collection technology.
You don't have to worry about C local variables (well, except some
rare cases).

							matz.