From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2002-01-16T02:37:45+09:00
Subject: memory usage question

I need to write a script that will use a hash with 4 million strings of 16
chars each.  As a test I wrote this quick script:

  h = {}; s = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'
  for i in 1..4_000_000
    h[i] = (s = s.succ)
  end

This ran relatively fast, but it consumed 265 megs of windows memory and
failed with out of memory error at around 3 million elements.

Why did Ruby fail at 265 megs and is there another way for me to do this?