From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2014-09-16T12:09:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:65055] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #10244] [Third Party's Issue] Garbage Collector not being triggered

On 2014/09/16 11:35, Michel Boaventura wrote:
>>Ruby doesn't know about memories >`malloc`ed inside gdk library, so they >can't trigger GC.
> 
> But if ruby doesn't know about this allocations, how it can collect this memory if asked manually?

The object itself knows how to release the resources it acquired.