From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-12-25T20:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [Rubinius-question] GC-related

Hi Michael,

On Dec 25, 2007 4:55 PM, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> BTW, is there a Rubinius related mailing list? I couldn't find one!

There you go!

http://groups.google.com/group/rubinius-dev?hl=en
>
> If not, here is my problem/question:
>
> I've a lot of C++ objects, and wrap them in Ruby objects (just like
> every C/C++ extension does using Data_Wrap_Struct). This creates the
> same amount of Ruby objects of course. I'd love to avoid this overhead
> by allocating a few more bytes for the C++ object to then "embed" the
> Ruby object into the C++ object (or vice versa). But that doesn't work
> with MRI/Ruby, because the GC assumes the allocated memory to be within
> a well known memory frame and of a special size or aligned, mainly due
> to reducing overhead when doing a conservative cycle (or that's how I
> understand it).
>
> How is it done in Rubinius? Is it possible to allocate any number of
> bytes per Ruby object? In-line?
>
> Thanks in advance, and Merry Christmas!
>
> Regards,
>
>    Michael
>
>



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