From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T23:28:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Are not used Objects cleaned from memory?

Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
> Assuming the object is not referenced in any other way it will be 
> garbage
> collected.

Eventually.

AFAIK there is no way to force the garbage collector to operate; this is 
in common with most other languages that use garbage collection. 
GC.start or GC.enable do not *force* garbage collection to occur.

But I'm by no means an expert, so someone will probably be along in a 
minute to tell you about a gem that does just that... or it's already in 
v1.9...  :-)

Dave


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