[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby on iPhone

[Антон Журавскій]

Hi Laurent,

Wow, thanks, you gave me a fair amount of directions – many thanks. I  
will start digging into it and let you know as I advance.

I will start with malloc then. Re retain/release – this seems to be a  
good and quite straightforward approach, but I believe there will be  
issues like circular dependencies (A -> B, B -> A => never released  
once isolated from roots), so there are quite a few problems to think  
about.

Thanks for help, will contact you soon.

Regards,
Anton

06.10.2009, в 23:49, Laurent Sansonetti написал(а):

> Hi Anton,
>
> Great! So, since autozone doesn't exist on the iPhone, we must  
> emulate it. First, we make sure all memory allocations are done from  
> the default malloc zone. Second, we need to appropriately retain/ 
> release/autorelease Objective-C objects (as an example, if an object  
> becomes an instance variable, it has to be retained). Third, we need  
> to programmatically compile autorelease pools.
>
> This isn't an easy task but we can work together on this. Of course  
> feel free to ping us if you have any question.
>
> Laurent
>
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Антон Журавскій wrote:
>
>> Hi Laurent,
>>
>> So I believe I will at least try to work out something re 2). The  
>> only issue that might emerge is that even if I end up with  
>> something working, it would be great to be checked by somebody as  
>> I'm not a proficient C developer (however, I wrote some stuff in C,  
>> C++ and Objective-C).
>>
>> Also, may I count on any hints from the community in case I have  
>> been stuck with something?
>>
>> Best,
>> Anton
>>
>> 06.10.2009, в 23:37, Laurent Sansonetti написал(а):
>>
>>> Hi Anton,
>>>
>>> It's more complicated than that. It's basically a 2 goals target:
>>>
>>> 1) finishing the AOT compiler
>>> 2) emulating garbage collection
>>>
>>> I work on 1) heavily. AFAIK nobody started working on 2).
>>>
>>> The project is free software by the way, so anyone can hack on the  
>>> source code. If you won't want to die before it gets there, it's  
>>> probably the best solution.
>>>
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>> On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Антон Журавскій wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I know most of you are 100% pissed off by this topic, but does  
>>>> anybody work on porting MacRuby to iPhone?
>>>> What are main issues around that (if any)? And do we have a  
>>>> chance to be alive when it finally gets there?
>>>>
>>>> I'm personaly very excited by Ruby in general and MacRuby in  
>>>> particular, so would like to help if I can.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Anton
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