Kurt Stephens

This is becoming a proposal for a standard Ruby Reference API that should be portable across all Ruby implementations.

The current MRI implementation has support for native WeakReference, SoftReference and ReferenceQueue. Charles Nutter (JRuby) and Brian Durand (ref gem) has been providing feedback and ideas.

See for more details:

https://github.com/kstephens/ruby/tree/trunk-weakref-c

— Kurt

The patches for MRI 1.8, REE 1.8 and MRI 1.9 have been refactored into a fork of the ref gem:

https://github.com/kstephens/ref/tree/master-mri-gc_api