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From: Roger Pack <roger.pack / leadmediapartners.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: Manual Memory Management
To: ruby-core / ruby-lang.org


On Mon, Jan 7, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Evan Weaver <evan / cloudbur.st> wrote:
> Python supports 'del reference', which decrements the reference
> counter by one and removes the variable name from scope. I would
> really like to see that in Ruby.

That would be nice.  Might help the GC along its way without other side effects.
Does anybody know if any further work on the boehm stuff surfaced?
Any way I could get ahold of it?
Thanks!
-R