From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-11-10T06:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: enterprise ruby

On 09.11.2007 21:28, Roger Pack wrote:
> I am thinking of doing a 'side by side' distro of Ruby that includes the
> latest SVN up's, as well as some 'fringe' best practices, like a tweaked
> GC.
> It would have the ability to do force_recycle on objects arbitrarily (at
> your own risk), and getters and setters for the GC variables (like how
> often to recycle, how close you are to the next collection, how big of
> heap blocks to use, etc.)
> and also have a GC that is write-on-copy friendly (takes barely longer,
> but doesn't dirty memory).
> 
> And any other personal tweaks that people contribute.  Kind of a
> bleeding edge Ruby.
> 
> Would that be useful to anyone?  Would anyone use it?
> Thanks and take care.

Personally, if I had the resources to invest into this I'd rather spend 
them on JRuby.  You get a GC with many tweaking options etc. plus native 
threads.

Kind regards

	robert