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]]> By: fjord http://thefjord.org/2010/07/05/ruby-garbage-collector-tuning-a-walkthrough/comment-page-1/#comment-514 fjord Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:04:31 +0000 http://thefjord.org/?p=197#comment-514 @Frew: Right. Basically anything other than reference counting is going to have to do periodic checks on all the live objects. Ruby's implementation is super simple: it really does just scan all of memory for anything that looks like a pointer. More advanced GC techniques (like Java or the shiny new Rubinius) do variations on this like moving long-lived objects to a different area of memory that is scanned less often. @Rebecca: Well, I dunno, the first phase of prepping the wool for spinning is garbage collection, right? :-) @Frew: Right. Basically anything other than reference counting is going to have to do periodic checks on all the live objects. Ruby’s implementation is super simple: it really does just scan all of memory for anything that looks like a pointer. More advanced GC techniques (like Java or the shiny new Rubinius) do variations on this like moving long-lived objects to a different area of memory that is scanned less often.

@Rebecca: Well, I dunno, the first phase of prepping the wool for spinning is garbage collection, right? :-)

]]> By: Rebecca http://thefjord.org/2010/07/05/ruby-garbage-collector-tuning-a-walkthrough/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Rebecca Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:22:15 +0000 http://thefjord.org/?p=197#comment-513 Is this what you feel like when I blog about spinning? ;-) Is this what you feel like when I blog about spinning?

;-)

]]> By: Frew Schmidt http://thefjord.org/2010/07/05/ruby-garbage-collector-tuning-a-walkthrough/comment-page-1/#comment-512 Frew Schmidt Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:06:30 +0000 http://thefjord.org/?p=197#comment-512 So is this a function of a mark-and-sweep garbage collection algorithm? I don't really know much about how GC works; I know that Perl uses reference counting, but that has other issues (circular references produce leaks.) So is this a function of a mark-and-sweep garbage collection algorithm? I don’t really know much about how GC works; I know that Perl uses reference counting, but that has other issues (circular references produce leaks.)

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