From: Ruben <Ruben.Vandeginste@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T16:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: GC and low file performance when large array is allocated

At Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:13:22 +0900,
Ruben wrote:
> 
> My guess is that in the loop 100000.times{|i|t="t"}, the garbage
> collector will run out of memory, maybe once, maybe even more. And
> when it runs out of memory, it will have to mark/read/follow all cells
> in "largeArray", and since that array is very large, i think that's
> causing the slowdown.
> 
> Try the following and you'll see it's faster:

Sorry, disregard this. I somehow messed up the timings from some
tests.

Ruben