From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-10-25T03:23:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Forcing a GC run

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:15:21AM +0900, Michael Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I force that the GC frees all unreferenced objects? Basically
> what I want is:
> 
>   x = Object.new
>   xoid = x.object_id
>   ObjectSpace.define_finalizer(x, proc { puts "recycled" })
> 
>   x = nil 

this one is missing of course:

    puts "before GC"

>   ObjectSpace.garbage_collect
>   puts "after GC"
>   p ObjectSpace._id2ref(xoid)

Regards,

  Michael