From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-15T11:28:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28577] Re: memory management

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:28567] memory management"
    on 01/12/15, Christian Kruse <CK1@wwwtech.de> writes:

|I've got a little question: when ruby reserves memory, when will it be
|freed? When the gc is running?

When the memory manager in Ruby is asked to allocate an object, and
its freelist is empty, it invokes garbage collection.  In the garbage
collection process, unused objects are marked, then freed by the
garbage collector.

							matz.