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Subject: [ruby-talk:17075] Re: Is the ruby GC compacting ?
From: matz@ b l g r ( k i t m o
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 02:49:42 +0900
References: 25494
In-reply-to: 25494

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.