From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T22:06:36+09:00
Subject: Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?

* Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> [0745 22:45]:
>  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

Oh, right - you mean at the Ruby interpreter compile time - I 
thought you meant during compilation of the ruby code -
which is obviously a bit confusing....

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