From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T06:45:15+09:00
Subject: Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?

 Hello matz,

> I don't care much about fragmentation.

Hmm and what about long running ruby applications. With real threads
an web application server could make sense. But on the other hand Java
did not compact for years (don't now if Java > 1.3 has extended the
operator in this way).

>|Have you thought about a user selectable (compile time) GC ?

>I'm not sure what you mean by "user selectable (compile time)".

./configure --with_boehm_gc
make
make install


> Current Ruby depends heavily upon finalizers.  That is a problem.

Finalizers are supported by Boehm but you need some time to figure out
how to set them up. Like all open source projects there is a lack of
documentation.

But i will look into this at the end of year because my eiffel
development could also benefit from it.