From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-08-29T01:20:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Temporary VALUE Needs to Be Protected?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:03:41PM +0900, Christian Szegedy wrote:
> The Ruby garbage collector scans the used part of the stack,
> and registers all addresses found there. This may be too much,
> but it does not matter. (That was matzs commment about the
> "conservativness of the gc")

What is the performance impact of Ruby's GC being conservative?
 <=> How large is the C-stack usually?

Couldn't we use some preprocessor-magic to mark the pointers as they're
created?

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