From: george.marrows@... (George Marrows) Date: 2003-07-22T17:11:42+09:00 Subject: Re: matz thoughts on Rite ? Chris Thomas wrote in message news:... > There's been talk about a generational garbage collector customized for > Ruby in the past. Boehm is mostly a conservative mark&sweep, IIRC. In > any case, it should be possible to do better than Boehm, which largely > lives within the restraints imposed by supporting C and C++. Ruby's extension & embedding API means that its GC also needs to support C (and C++) - I think it has the same constraints as Boehm. Any non-conservative GC scheme for Ruby would surely complicate the API and the implementation. -- George