From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T20:21:21+09:00
Subject: Re: How to reclaim memory without GC.start

> buffer = "." * 1024
> while STDIN.read(1024, buffer)
>   print buffer
> end

What's the point of initializing the buffer with 1024 characters,
instead of just initializing it with an empty string? I must be
missing something...

Thanks.

gegroet,
Erik V.