From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T04:38:53+09:00
Subject: Re: The real difference between Mutex and Sync


On Sep 4, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Kent Sibilev wrote:

>
> Good findings.
>
> I think the problem lies in the Array#shift (rb_ary_shift)
> implementation. Basically, it just increments the internal pointer and
> it never modifies the size of an array. This means that if you have an
> array with 1000 elements and you 'shift' it 999 times, all these
> elements are still visible to the garbage collector, until you modify
> this array by triggering rb_ary_store method, for example.
>

Would this help?

class Array
   alias rb_ary_shift shift
   def shift
     @len ||= length
     @shift_count ||= 0
     res = rb_ary_shift
     @shift_count += 1
     if @shift_count >= @len / 2
       @shift_count = nil
       @len =  nil
       replace(dup)
     end
     res
   end
end




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