From: "Kroeger Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>
Date: 2005-08-24T23:47:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Very strange GC behaviour

> [...]
> One gotcha I've only seen after sending the other mail is, that moving
> the variables to the outer loop won't buy you anything. While the GC
> is disabled, this should eat infinite amounts of memory
> 
> GC.disable
> a = "empty-"
> loop do a += "" end
> GC.enable

True, but

--------------------
GC.disable
a = "empty-"
loop do a << '' end
GC.enable
--------------------

should not :)
and

--------------------
GC.disable
a = "empty-"
b = ''
loop do a << b end
GC.enable
--------------------

does not.

One has to be very carefull when disabling GC.
(Don't know if anything of this helps...)

cheers

Simon