il Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:17:13 +0900, David Ross <drossruby / yahoo.com> ha scritto:: >> I don't think that gc is part of a ruby >specification. >> Maybe you intended eval.c ? >I should have said, "I do not understand the GC, and >parsing evaluations are a task as well. To start >though I need to know how ruby is expected to work. >Each language GC is different, but performs the same >task. yes but I intended: "you can have your own kind of gc, because ruby garbage collection does not really determine the behaviour of a program". If you have 3-color generational gc or simple reference counting with cycle detection I think that nothing will change for the final user. Anyway, I may be wrong.