From: paul at prescod.net (Paul Prescod)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:25:27 GMT
Subject: Python IS slow ! [was] Re: Python too slow for real world
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Reimer Behrends wrote:
> 
> > Is there any languge that is as easy to embed as Python, and also has
> > full garbage collection?
> 
> Ruby. (Was discussed here before.) See

Maybe you can describe its embedding API. How does it handle the issue of
C pointers to objects that are moving around? How does it know if the
embedding code has buried a pointer away somewhere?

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