From: Roger Pack Date: 2008-05-28T23:33:28+09:00 Subject: Re: GC heap allocation in 1.9 > I am very interested in any improvement on Ruby's GC. I'd happy to > see the patch. If you have benchmarks to measure improvement from > your patch, I'd like to see them too. some random links: http://lloydforge.org/projects/ruby/ somewhat weird changes to the GC. they use a 2K fixed heap size with slightly decreased performance. I'll email and ask for the benchmarks they used. Also Hongli may have some recommendations on this, to make sure it doesn't negatively affect it with the copy on write aspect in there. http://railsbench.rubyforge.org/ http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/69026 There may have been some more in the ruby core archive. GL. -R