[MacRuby-devel] requesting advice for using Garbage Collection for a Cocoa MIDI app (so that I may use MacRuby)

2011-07-27 Thread Tom Jordan
Hi, thanks for the reply Rob.. I just joined the list and was in digest mode.. i hope this will reply to the already begun thread by just including the same subject line.. if not, my apologies for beginning a duplicate thread.. thanks for the advice.. that article looks familiar.. i think I saw

Re: [MacRuby-devel] requesting advice for using Garbage Collection for a Cocoa MIDI app (so that I may use MacRuby)

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Lowe
I have no expert weigh-in but only a quick google search revealed: From: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?GarbageCollection > The big cost is to latency - the ability of a program to respond > near-instantaneously to real-time situations. For many programs, this is not > an issue - nanosecond l

[MacRuby-devel] requesting advice for using Garbage Collection for a Cocoa MIDI app (so that I may use MacRuby)

2011-07-27 Thread Tom Jordan
Hi, I'd like to use MacRuby alongside Objective-C in a MIDI app I'm writing. I have already had success with evaluating MacRuby files from the AppDelegate and they work great in tandem with the rest of the code in Objective-C. I'm just concerned about getting further along with application,