From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-02-08T19:28:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10558] Re: Garbage collector (Was: Embedded Ruby (Part III))

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Olivier CARRERE wrote:
> 
> > > > >I hope so too, since I'm far from being a great Ruby guru. BTW, do you
> > > > >know how to explicitely call the garbage collector?
> > > >
> > > > From the standard PR book, GC.start should do it.
> > >
> > > Mmh, that means calling it from Ruby itself, but how to call it from an
> > > external C prog?
> > 
> > I finally found something called gc_sweep() into gc.c, I hope that's it.
> > 
> No, don't use it; it's only one part of the Mark-and-SWEEP algorithm.
> 
> But I haven't followed this thread so I might be out of line...
> 
Oh, BTW gc_start is the one but note that it is not exported in ruby.h.
One way might be rb_eval_string("GC.start") but there are probably better
ways...

/R