From: Nathan Smith <nsmith5@...>
Date: 2005-06-08T23:34:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory leak?


On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> Nathan Smith wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I get very different results in my program when I add a simple print
>>
>
> What kind of results?  Memory usage?  Was this the first output  
> statement
> in the whole program?

I have many print statements, although I'll cut them out to see if  
anything changes.

> You probably created some temporary strings for / during printing  
> and the
> GC doesn't collect them immediately.

Aye, I thought of that, but the problem is a little deeper than that.  
Objects are being created dynamically, and the actual type of the  
object that is created changes -- depending on if I put enough print  
statements into the code. It looks and smells like a memory leak..... :(

Are there any tools that can verify this? Seems like that would be a  
problem, considering that Ruby generally doesn't have memory leaks.  
Thanks for your help

Nate