From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T17:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (10/16/02)

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:21:38AM +0900, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
> Hi batsman,
> 
> I guess then basically the optimization will work only with Ruby 
> scripts.  If a person creates a C extension (and mixing Ruby scripts and C
> function calls) then this optimization should be disabled.

Writing extensions is always quite unsafe, so we're already trusting the
developer not to bomb Ruby's internals from C. It would be easy to add
something like rb_set_dirty_bit() so things don't get nasty when
keeping several references in C.
 

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