From: "Perry E. Metzger" Date: 2002-08-29T10:31:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Why Ruby Uses Mark-and-Sweep GC? William Djaja Tjokroaminata writes: > Do you think it will be beneficial to add C API for Ruby objects that will > not participate in the mark-and-sweep gc in a future release of Ruby? I > think in this way we expand Ruby usefullness to include real-time > programming. Why are you contrasting garbage collection and real time programming? There is little reason to assume most real time tasks can't be handled in a garbage collected environment, though you do need to deal with the garbage collector more carefully. -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com -- "Ask not what your country can force other people to do for you..."