From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T10:04:46+09:00
Subject: Re: sharing memory in ruby

Hi,

In message "Re: sharing memory in ruby"
    on Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:48:48 +0900, "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:

|any thoughts on a good approach for people that want to do some memory sharing
|between ruby objects?  say strings and mmaps and narrays and images all
|sharing some memory regions.  any do's and dont's or other thoughts?

I don't thing you need to share memory within same processes.  Just
refer to a same object.  mmap seems reasonable solution to share
memory between processes.  The another idea is using some kind of RPC,
such as dRuby instead of sharing memory.

							matz.