From: Kent Sibilev <ksruby@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T02:52:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, memory and speed

On 8/17/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Ruby, memory and speed"
>     on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:16:33 +0900, "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |This is a perfect example of what I've noticed many times: Ruby's
> |performance is perfectly fast and acceptable until the working set gets a
> |certain (not terribly large) size, then it falls off a cliff. GC perhaps has
> |something to do with it, but I suspect that's only a small part of the
> |problem.
>
> This may be caused by the problem addressed in 1.9:
>
>    Mon Jul 10 19:22:19 2006  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
>
>         * gc.c (gc_sweep): expand heap earlier.
>           reported by MORITA Naoyuki.  [ruby-dev:28960]
>
>                                                         matz.
>

Any plans to back port it to ruby_1_8 branch?

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