From: Sam Smoot Date: 2007-12-27T05:05:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Destroying an Object Eh... I'm less a fan of Ruby's GC. As a former c# developer, I'm actually curious why the comment on .NET's GC? BTW, objects in Ruby are not guaranteed to be GC'ed when there are no more references to them. They can easily survive numerous cycles of the GC and be found in the ObjectSpace. It's actually really frustrating.