From: Ralph Shnelvar Date: 2009-11-10T04:23:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array Marnen, I am a Ruby newbie but as far as I know, memory gets freed when the garbage collector gets around to doing it. Ralph MLK> The answer to both questions: as far as I know, it will be deallocated MLK> when it goes out of scope.