From: Barson <not.my.real.email@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T00:26:52+09:00
Subject: Re: comments found in ObjectSpace

This got me thinking. Would it be a 'good practice' to run
ObjectSpace.garbage_collect at the beginning of any Ruby program? Any
benefits?




"Barson" <not.my.real.email@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:PtudnUa8n9MORdbenZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@rogers.com...
> Yeah, I am on Windows.
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> > on Windows. I'm guessing this is source code that has previously been
> > parsed, but not yet garbage collected. If I add
> ObjectSpace.garbage_collect
>
> Great. That explains it. Thanks.
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> "Bob Showalter" <Bob_Showalter@taylorwhite.com> wrote in message
> news:2E4528861499D41199D200A0C9B15BC005EE80AB@fristx.taylorwhite.com...
> > Amarison wrote:
> > > I ran the following code:
> > >
> > > all = []
> > >
> > > ObjectSpace.each_object do |obj|
> > >   all << obj
> > > end
> > >
> > > File.open('objectspace.txt','w') do |f|
> > >   f.puts all
> > > end
> > >
> > >
> > > and I was surprised to find comments in objectspace.txt. I was under
> > > the impression that Ruby skips comments when parsing code.
> > >
> > > Very strange behaviour... Anyone cares to explain? Thanks
> >
> > I don't see the comments when I run on FreeBSD, but I do see them when I
> run
> > on Windows. I'm guessing this is source code that has previously been
> > parsed, but not yet garbage collected. If I add
> ObjectSpace.garbage_collect
> > at the beginning of the program, the source code doesn't show up any
> longer.
> >
> >
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