From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-22T11:02:19+09:00
Subject: Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?

Hi,

In message "Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?"
    on 03/07/22, Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:

|> I don't care much about fragmentation.
|
|Hmm and what about long running ruby applications.

If I understand right, memory fragmentation would not be critical
unless under the memory starving environment, although compaction may
improve performance significantly.

|> 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.

Last time I read the Boehm documentation about a year ago, its
finalizer was not sufficient to support the current Ruby behavior.
Finalizers may or may not be called.  Ruby now calls every finalizers
before termination.

							matz.