matz / ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes: > |for completeness the other solution is region inference: > | replace most (in some programs, all) of the need of GC by stack-based memory > | management > | http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/tofte98region.html > > Hmm, unfortunately it's too hard for me to read. sigh. > I will try anyway. I didn't give explicitly this link. This should be (much) more readable: - the Introduction in http://www.diku.dk/research-groups/topps/activities/kit2/summerschool/toc.html - http://www.acm.org/sigplan/pldi/pldi2001/pldi01-presentations/DavidGay.pdf http://www.acm.org/sigplan/pldi/pldi2001/pldi01-presentations/DavidGay.ppt - http://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/r.html#region.inference