From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-05-25T22:26:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Impossible to enforce garbage collection

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Robert Pankowecki
<robert.pankowecki@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://pastie.org/1970654
>
> Can anyone tell me why the object created with finializer is not garbage
> collected during GC.start executed in line 10 please ?

There are no guarantees - neither about when GC will occur nor about
which objects it will collect.  AFAIK Ruby MRI's GC doesn't even
bother to do something until your memory usage goes beyond a
particular point.  It's unlikely that you reach that point with your
test.

Kind regards

robert

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