From: Justin Johnson <justinj@...>
Date: 2002-08-29T19:32:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Temporary VALUE Needs to Be Protected?


It sounds like your talking about smart ptr's.  I initially tried this but I
believe there would be significant overheads throughout the system.

After a lot of research I came to the conclusion that using the stack and
playing conservative is the best way to go.

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Justin Johnson

"Mauricio Fern�ndez" <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:20020829001707.GC27149@kodos...
> That's what I thought, we just have to avoid alloca when the GC is about
> to do its job.
>
> If Ruby were interfaced with C++ we could have a special ValueReference
> type which would (un)register the pointer as needed, so that a full
> stack marking wouldn't be needed.
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