Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:17069] Is the ruby GC compacting ?" on 01/06/30, Lothar Scholz <llothar / mailandnews.de> writes: |Or can i safely assume that a reference to a Ruby object is always the |same when i store it in a extension. It's not, and will not be compacting GC. I've been pretty nice to extension writers, mostly because me myself is one of them. matz.