From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2011-05-19T08:18:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tridib Bandopadhyay wrote: > > What do you mean by Hacking Ruby's Code... I didn't get it.. Can you > describe me in Detail. % svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk ruby % cd ruby % vim ruby.c gc.c # modify Ruby's source code here. > Yeah i know that.. But since Ruby is Using Stop the World concept. So I > was thinking of not letting the GC to come and free memory every time > for small objects,Stopping the code. So I just want to check if it can > be helpful or not... Then start looking at other GC systems that are used by other languages. You don't know if you can improve Ruby's GC if you don't know about other GCs, and how they are implemented, no? -- Phillip Gawlowski Though the folk I have met, (Ah, how soon!) they forget When I've moved on to some other place, There may be one or two, When I've played and passed through, Who'll remember my song or my face.