From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T05:51:00+09:00
Subject: Re: debugging memory use and GC

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> What I'd really like to see is a general object graph traversal 
> mechanism that can be used to help implement marshal and other dumpers, 
> gc tools, etc. Several (3 or 4) years ago, matz said he was moving in 
> this direction...[1]

This is the thread where matz said he was looking at a more general 
traversal mechanism to support marshal and other purposes:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/34335

Maybe it is still "vapor"...

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