Modernize usage of Ruby's C extension API#116
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Thanks so much for contributing this, I was unaware of the newer TypedData API.
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There's no need to copy an already frozen string.
Rather than using a mix of, e.g. re2_matchdata* self and re2_matchdata *self, always place the asterisk on the name rather than the type for consistency with the rest of the code.
Define rb_gc_location as the identity function for Ruby < 2.7 so that
the code it generates is valid otherwise we get syntax errors like the
following:
../../../../ext/re2/re2.cc: In function 'void re2_matchdata_update_references(void*)':
../../../../ext/re2/re2.cc:142:46: error: expected primary-expression before ';' token
142 | self->regexp = rb_gc_location(self->regexp);
For Ruby versions < 2.7, there is no dcompact function for TypedData so re2_matchdata_update_references and re2_scanner_update_references will never be used resulting in a compiler warning. Avoid this by only defining those functions when rb_gc_mark_movable is present.
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I also ran this through ruby_memcheck and no leaks were reported. |
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Use the
TypedDataAPI introduced in Ruby 1.9.2, instead of the oldDataAPI that was deprecated in Ruby 2.3.This allows to implement Write Barriers.
Write barrier protected objects are allowed to be promoted to the old generation, which means they only get marked on major GC, making minor GC faster.
The downside is that the
RB_BJ_WRITEmacro MUST be used to set references, otherwise the referenced object may be garbaged collected.This also allow to implement GC compaction.