See my earlier reply, basically, you are right, it is technically possible to change the way MacRuby works to use an automatic reference counting approach. But it's far from being trivial.
- Matt On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Henry Maddocks <henry.maddo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 17/10/2011, at 7:11 PM, Igor Evsukov wrote: > >> Hi Henry, >> >>>> And it's impossible to make Ruby to use ARC. >>> >>> Why? >> For memory management Objective-C uses a paradigm called "reference >> counting". > > ... > >> In Ruby we have garbage collector which is acts in whole different way > > I understand all this. But I'm not asking about _Ruby_, I'm asking about the > MacRuby OBJ-C implementation of the Ruby language. > >> So, basically, ARC and GC are two conceptually different things which are >> even not replaceable by each other(circular references). > > This doesn't explain why MacRuby can't be implemented with ARC rather than > relying on the OBJ-C 2 garbage collector. > > Henry > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
