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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "notmuch@notmuchmail.org" <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Cc: Ali Polatel <alip@exherbo.org>
Subject: Re: The future of Ruby bindings
Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 01:28:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1u88DTij-aU8x03S4K2o6sXYZc-cPZWAfru-t_NU-G3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <608c81378d0d0_fea2086d@natae.notmuch>

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 5:14 PM Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> I understand why Ali Polatel did commit c7893408 (ruby: Kill garbage
> collection related cruft., 2010-05-26); because the order of the object
> destruction cannot be ensured in Ruby, however, there's ways to
> workaround that.
>
>  1. We can steal the object
>  2. We can increase the reference count
>  3. We can add a second parent

I attempted all options, and none of these worked in practice, except #1.

I have the patches ready, but first they need the cleanups in [1].

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Cheers.

[1] id:20210504081749.715768-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com

-- 
Felipe Contreras

      reply	other threads:[~2021-05-08  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-30 22:14 The future of Ruby bindings Felipe Contreras
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