From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2014-06-10T18:45:45+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:63069] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #9638] [Open] [PATCH] limit IDs to 32-bits on 64-bit systems

SASADA Koichi <ko1@atdot.net> wrote:
> (2014/03/15 4:07), normalperson@yhbt.net wrote:
> > Also limits symbol space to prevent OOM.
> 
> What is OOM?
> Out of memory?

Yes, out-of-memory.

> Symbol GC doesn't help?

It does; but OOM was a secondary concern of mine.

I mainly wanted 32-bit ID so it might be easier to pack some structs
on 64-bit machines.  64-bit ID is not a big issue, though.