From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-03-22T14:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: object destruction


On Mar 21, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Joey Marino wrote:

>     ObjectSpace.define_finalizer(self,self.finalize)

finalizers cannot, in any way , refer to the object being destroyed  
otherwise the reference prevents the object from ever being freed.

why not simply do

if fork do
   memory_intensive_work
end

Process.wait

this way memory will always be freed.

regards.

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