From: Tom Allison <tallison@...>
Date: 2006-02-08T02:25:56+09:00
Subject: Re: garbage collection


On 2/7/2006, "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:

>Tom Allison wrote:
>> I haven't a copy of the code yet but a friend of mine was bemoaning
>> his efforts to create an application in ruby (conversion from python)
>> and ran into a problem.
>>
>> He discards a LOT of objects during the final steps of his application
>> run.  This part of the process ultimately results in a crash every
>> time he runs it.
>
>What exactly do you mean by "discard"?  Does he simply stop referencing a
>big collection?  Are there finalizers defined for objects?

I don't think he has anything like a defined finalizer.
I'll have to get the code...