From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2012-09-21T06:25:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:47626] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7022] add event hook for garbage collection

I looked into this on JRuby/JVM last night, and found that they have
recently added a nonstandard API for getting GC notifications as they
happen. And they happen *after* the GC has occurred. They're
informational.

Would be neat to have something standard in Ruby...especially now that
I know we can implement it (on Java 7u4+ anyway).

FWIW, here's a gist I posted last night that implements
GC::Profiler.report entirely in Ruby using the JVM APIs:

https://gist.github.com/3754108

- Charlie

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:13 AM, rogerdpack (Roger Pack)
<rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Issue #7022 has been updated by rogerdpack (Roger Pack).
>
>
> hmm...correct me if I'm wrong (I'm trying to maintain the ruby-prof gem here) will the dtrace probes in #2565 help me if I'm running profiling in windows?  Actually if a hook were added for "GC DONE" or the like, I could query using the API at that point, which would probably be enough. Feedbacks?
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> Feature #7022: add event hook for garbage collection
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7022#change-29308
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> Author: rogerdpack (Roger Pack)
> Status: Open
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee:
> Category:
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> It would be useful for profilers to have more insight into garbage collection.  Feature request: add event hooks for garbage collect start/stop.  For the lazy sweep, start and stop events would also be interesting.
> Thanks.
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