From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2009-04-02T08:11:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Symbols garbage collector in Ruby1.9, fixed? Hi, In message "Re: Symbols garbage collector in Ruby1.9, fixed?" on Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:37:46 +0900, Julian Leviston writes: |Is the garbage collection in 1.9 better than 1.8? Yes, but slightly. For example, it returns unused memory regions to the OS more often than 1.8. matz.