From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-06-27T17:22:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16956] Re: finalizers, destructors and whatnot

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote:

> so you have to trigger garbage collection manually? Pythoneers can count
> on finalizing happening at once, as they use reference counting.
>
This is WRONG. You do NOT need to manually invoke garbage collection in
Ruby. Of course you can do it manually if you want to see GC.start.

Regards,

Robert