On 3 September 2010 16:16, Clifford Heath <[email protected]> wrote:

> While I cant vouch for it, I know that memory leaks was number one on Tim
> Hunter's
> priorities, and he claimed to have produced a release that was, barring
> programmer
> stupidity, basically free of leaks. In order to get around the issues with
> the Ruby GC
> not being able to see the image memory, he even provided a method to
> release the
> memory for an image. Now while manual release isn't exactly a 21st century
> way of
> going about things, it actually isn't a problem with significant objects
> like images.
>

Nice. A manual free isn't ideal but it wouldn't bother me—I'd wrap it up
with a block accessor that autofreed it anyway :)

Glad to hear progress is being made.

—Ben

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