Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> wrote: : 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. ??? I've been looking at embedding Ruby in very long-running applications, and I would assume that generational GC is the way to go here.... Do you have a future design goal for Ruby's GC?