[#1263] Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

33 messages 2000/02/08

[#1376] Re: Scripting versus programming — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

Conrad writes:

13 messages 2000/02/15

[#1508] Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...>

17 messages 2000/02/19
[#1544] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...> 2000/02/23

Hello Ian,

[#1550] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...> 2000/02/23

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:56:10AM -0500, Yasushi Shoji wrote:

[#1516] Ruby: PLEASE use comp.lang.misc for all Ruby programming/technical questions/discussions!!!! — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>

((FYI: This was sent to the Ruby mail list.))

10 messages 2000/02/19

[#1569] Re: Ruby: constructors, new and initialise — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article

12 messages 2000/02/25

[ruby-talk:01468] Re: GC performance

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-17 08:00:31 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1468
In message "[ruby-talk:01463] GC performance"
    on 00/02/16, mengx@nielsenmedia.com <mengx@nielsenmedia.com> writes:

|I found the garbage collection slows down my program significantly.
|I disabled the GC and the program speed increased by a factor of two.
|Is it normal ? How does GC work in Ruby ? like Java?

Ruby uses conservative mark&sweep GC.  The cost of GC may be
significant, if many objects alive and a few object dead through the
process.

							matz.

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