From: Aaron Patterson <aaron_patterson@...>
Date: 2007-01-12T15:59:19+09:00
Subject: Garbage collection and Arrays

Hi, I seem to be running in to some garbage collection weirdness.
Hopefully someone will have some insight for me....  My sample script
seems to leak Strings when I use shift on an Array, but not pop:

array = []
10.times { array << "foo" }
10.times { array.pop }  # Change this to shift to see a leak

o_count = Hash.new(0)
GC.start
ObjectSpace.each_object { |o| o_count[o.class] += 1 }

o_count.sort_by { |k,v| -v}.each { |k,v| puts "#{k}: #{v}" }

Is this a bug?  Or is there something I'm missing?  Thanks!

--Aaron

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Aaron Patterson
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