Subject:
[ruby-ffi] Re: Struct/ManagedStruct and GC behaviour
From:
rogerdpack
Date:
12/21/09 5:40 PM
To:
ruby-ffi

> I should have added a footnote that just because it *can* be
> collected, there is in fact no guarantee that objects are in fact ever
> collected by the GC.  Depending on the implementation, there might not
> be sufficient ruby/java memory pressure to cause a GC event, so the
> objects are not collected, and the native memory is never freed.

Is there a #destroy method?

Which reminds me of dl's #malloc method.

Also a question.
In the old dl world there was dl/win32 which was a dl implementation
of Win32API.  Would there be any interest in seeing an FFI port of the
same?

-r