From: "Meinrad Recheis" <meinrad.recheis@gmail.com>
To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:01:50 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d756720803140501h3f3bb62l8dcb44bde4774b32@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47DA6092.20203@plan99.net>
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Hongli Lai <hongli@plan99.net> wrote:
> Daniel DeLorme wrote:
> > So the GC method could be dynamically changed to cow-friendly just
> > before doing a Process.fork... very nice!
>
> Actually, I'm thinking about requiring the script call "GC.cow_friendly
> = true". Most scripts do not fork, and when they do, they usually don't
> use it as a means to save memory.
>
the name cow_friendly could be misinterpreted by some cow boys ^^. how
about calling it #copy_on_write_friendly or even better
#supports_copy_on_write ?
cow, fork ... *chuckle*
-- henon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-14 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 9:48 Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector Hongli Lai
2008-03-03 12:38 ` Daniel DeLorme
2008-03-03 13:11 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
2008-03-04 11:31 ` Gonzalo Garramuño
2008-03-07 12:04 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-07 15:20 ` Paul Brannan
2008-03-07 16:22 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-07 18:47 ` Joel VanderWerf
2008-03-08 5:34 ` Daniel DeLorme
2008-03-08 7:50 ` Daniel DeLorme
2008-03-08 10:01 ` Daniel DeLorme
2008-03-08 15:39 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
2008-03-12 17:23 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-12 17:38 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
2008-03-13 0:48 ` Daniel DeLorme
2008-03-13 11:04 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-15 16:15 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-13 11:18 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-14 3:20 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-14 4:44 ` Daniel DeLorme
2008-03-14 11:25 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-14 12:01 ` Meinrad Recheis [this message]
2008-03-14 15:00 ` Daniel Berger
2008-03-14 15:53 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-14 17:34 ` Joel VanderWerf
2008-03-20 10:59 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-20 11:55 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
2008-03-20 12:54 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-20 14:24 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
2008-03-20 14:45 ` Hongli Lai
2008-03-20 15:28 ` Joel VanderWerf
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