From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-30T00:07:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15934] Re: Embedding Ruby in another program

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15888] Embedding Ruby in another program"
    on 01/05/29, Lothar Scholz <llothar@mailandnews.de> writes:

|My question is about the multitasking and GC.
|First as far as i heard the threading implementation is done via
|Coroutines. Is this right ? 

No.  It's stop and sweep type GC.

|What conservative GC do you use ? Is it possible that they live aside
|the Smalleiffel GC which is none conservative - normally this should
|not be a problem (if you can live with the performance penalty) ?

Ruby's conservative GC scans Ruby objects only.  So It wouldn't be
bothered by Smalleiffel GC.

|Smalleiffel also works with Boehms collector. Is it possible to remove
|rubys GCs and use Boehms for both parts ?

Theoretically possible, nearly impossible.  I have ever tried Boehm GC
long time ago.  It crashed.  I've never tried its recent version.

							matz.