From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T04:51:55+09:00
Subject: Re: comments found in ObjectSpace

Barson <not.my.real.email@gmail.com> wrote:
> This got me thinking. Would it be a 'good practice' to run
> ObjectSpace.garbage_collect at the beginning of any Ruby program? Any
> benefits?

With GC runtime systems it's generally not recommended to do explicit GC as 
those algorithms in the GC usually do a good job.  Although I believe the GC 
of Ruby is not yet as sophisticated as Java's I'm sure it's going to be at 
some point in time in the future.

Kind regards

    robert