From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-26T23:46:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby Uses Mark-and-Sweep GC?

Hi,

In message "Re: Why Ruby Uses Mark-and-Sweep GC?"
    on 02/08/26, William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu> writes:

|Thanks for the response.  Yes, after examining the codes further, it seems
|that rb_gc_register_address() and rb_gc_unregister_address() will not
|accomplish what I want.  Using rb_gc_unregister_address() will only result
|in the object being not-marked, but not being not-swept.

I think what you want is contradicting with mark&sweep GC, which Ruby
uses you know.  If you want to have objects out of GC sweep, you have
to define something handle "these objects" as a collection.  See
NArray for example.

							matz.