From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-04T11:13:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Best GC for Ruby?

Hi,

In message "Re: Best GC for Ruby?"
    on 02/09/04, "Justin Johnson" <justinj@mobiusent.com> writes:

|> It can be, if all attribute modifies are done by API.  Though we can't
|> assume this if we are developing general purpose collector like
|> Boehm's.
|
|Did you mean like in the setPointer macro/function above?

For the current Ruby implementation, all attribute changes are done
via API; variables, references from arrays and hashes, etc.  Exception
is wrapped C/C++ data value.  We solved this not by using setPointer
macro, but by nailing them to the young generation.

							matz.