From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2011-02-09T09:29:48+09:00
Subject: Re: C extension: How to check if a VALUE is still alive (not being GC'ed)?

2011/2/9 Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>:
>> Then... why do I need a mark callback? Maybe I miss something, however
>> Itested my code under high load and doesn't seem to leak.
>> Thanks a lot.
>
> Since you use the instance variable you do not need the mark callback.  The mark callback is only required if you are storing ruby objects in a structure that hides them from ruby.

Ok. So if for example my class stores some VALUE objects in a pure C
array, and these objects are not referenced at Ruby level, then I must
mark them. If not, Ruby GC could remove them from memory at any time,
am I right?

Thanks a lot.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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