From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T22:40:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (10/16/02)

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:22:53PM +0900, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
> Mauricio Fern?ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Hi batsman,
> 
> I think there are already existing Ruby applications/library/extensions
> that are written in part in C (that have references to Ruby objects).  I
> don't think we can expect all of them to add rb_set_dirty_bit().

How many do need several references to the same string from the C side?

If the number is high enough (ie, > a couple of them) doing this would
be pointless :-(

Bah, just have to find another thing to work on :)

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