From: Timothy Goddard <interfecus@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T00:45:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Minimizing memory allocations

I don't know anything about Lua, but Ruby is unlikely to see and speed
benefits from garbage collecting every frame unless you're deep in
swap. Ruby uses a "mark and sweep" garbage collection scheme, which I
believe means that garbage collecting time is mostly proportional to
the number of current, referenced objects, not the amount of junk left
behind.