From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T04:33:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Very strange GC behaviour

On 24/08/05, Kroeger Simon (ext) <simon.kroeger.ext@siemens.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > 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
> 
> 

That was exactly what I wanted to show ;-/

regards,

Brian

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