From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...128.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 2001-11-17T01:25:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25505] Re: Is the ruby GC compacting ?

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
:     on 01/06/30, Lothar Scholz <llothar@mailandnews.de> writes:
: |Or can i safely assume that a reference to a Ruby object is always the
: |same when i store it in a extension.

: It's not, and will not be compacting GC.  I've been pretty nice to
: extension writers, mostly because me myself is one of them.

???

I've been looking at embedding Ruby in very long-running applications, and
I would assume that generational GC is the way to go here....

Do you have a future design goal for Ruby's GC?