From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-09-18T01:21:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads preventing garbage collection?

Ara Howard wrote:
> but that it expected?  you have a Foo which referes to a Thread which
> has not died that is itself referred to by the global Thread.list
> 
> cfp:~ > ruby -e' 41.times{ Thread.new{ sleep } }; p Thread.list.size '
> 42

   Foo ------------>
                     thread
   thread list ---->

I don't think this should prevent garbage collection of Foo, if nothing 
is holding a reference to Foo
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