How do Native Extensions Manage Memory? Part 1: Ruby (MRI)

One of the most interesting design challenges in a programming language interpreter or VM is what kind of memory management API to offer to native extensions.

This issue is more or less invisible unless you’re writing a native extension. When you are simply writing a program in Ruby, Python, Lua, etc., you don’t usually care how the memory management is implemented. 


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Nezir Zahirovic

Contractor Ruby On Rails (8+ years) / MCPD .Net / C# / Asp.Net / CSS / SQL / (11 years)

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