[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby with UIKit
Shane Vitarana
shanev at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 12:50:21 PDT 2008
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Laurent Sansonetti
<lsansonetti at apple.com> wrote:
> No, there is no way right now to disable the GC in MacRuby and go back
> to the previous memory scheme. Also, as you may know, Ruby was
> designed to be garbage collected, so forcing developers to explicitly
> retain/release objects isn't really an option. What could be done is
> to resurrect the original Ruby GC and make sure every Objective-C
> object is properly retained/released, inside the core. Which is in
> fact what RubyCocoa does, but this brings several different problems
> (as well as of course the problems of the original Ruby GC).
>
> If you want to investigate, I would suggest you to start with
> RubyCocoa instead, which theoretically should run, modulo perhaps a
> few modifications. But don't forget that memory on the phone is a
> critical variable.
Thanks for the suggestions Laurent. Patching the Ruby GC to manage
Objective-C objects sounds messy, and I'd rather not deal with the
problems with Ruby GC. Looks like I'll be sticking with Objective-C
until there is a viable Ruby implementation for the iPhone.
Shane
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