From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2011-10-04T17:07:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:39917] Re: Event hooks for object creation and garbage collection

Hi,

At Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:14:34 +0900,
hemant wrote in [ruby-core:39865]:
> While porting memprof (https://github.com/ice799/memprof) to 1.9, the
> only change I had do in Ruby itself was to - add hooks for object
> creation and deletion. Of course, the code still depends heavily on -
> internal details of how objects are stored in MRI, but I think that is
> a price - a Profiler writer has to pay anyways.

How do you achieve it?

> I like the proposal of DTrace as well, but that again means - it will
> not work on GNU/Linux and other systems where DTrace is not available.

Pretty positive.  Can't you illustrate your proposal?

-- 
Nobu Nakada