From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-04-17T12:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby memory allocation

Emanuele Ricci wrote:

> Thank you for answering.
> My app runs in a linux gentoo environment on an arm processor embedded 
> device.
> I cross-compile ruby with an arm-linux compiler in a gnu linux host.
> The device has only 64Mb of ram and the last allocation of 8Mb happening 
> when the process is near 30-32Mb results in a NOEMEM error.

Interesting ... not many people I know use Gentoo embedded. I run Gentoo 
on my workstations and tried the cross-development chain on my Gumstix. 
But it was a lot of work and the "native" Gumstix development tools were 
a lot lighter weight.

Do you absolutely have to have Ruby 1.8? You might be able to use Ruby 
1.6, which has fewer "features" and is a bit lighter weight as a result. 
"miniruby" might also work. And there are other lighter-weight languages 
-- Forth, of course, and Lua.