Hi Perry, On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Perry E. Metzger <pe...@piermont.com> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:44:56 -0700 Matt Aimonetti > <mattaimone...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > Wouldn't reference counting radically change the behavior of Ruby in > the presence of cycles though? It would no longer be exactly the same > language -- libraries that used cyclic data structures internally > would need to be rewritten. >
Some people managed to have ref counting GCs that are able to deal with cycles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting#Dealing_with_reference_cycles I also believe that CPython works similarly. Laurent _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
