[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby and ARC was: Advice for Total Tyro

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:44:56 -0700 Matt Aimonetti
<mattaimonetti at gmail.com> wrote:
> See my earlier reply, basically, you are right, it is technically
> possible to change the way MacRuby works to use an automatic
> reference counting approach.
> But it's far from being trivial.

Wouldn't reference counting radically change the behavior of Ruby in
the presence of cycles though? It would no longer be exactly the same
language -- libraries that used cyclic data structures internally
would need to be rewritten.

Perry
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