From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2012-02-10T23:49:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol garbage collection

Hi,

In message "Re: Symbol garbage collection"
    on Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:37:06 +0900, Sigurd <cu9ypd@gmail.com> writes:

|Hi,
|Ruby store all object, method and variable names as a symbols. That's why symbol GC might be dangerous.
|The only thing i'm not clear about is the rb_gc_mark_symbols method that is implemented in parse.y and is called for every GC round.
|Can someone explain what's its purpose?

In 1.9, symbol names are stored as Ruby strings, so that they have to
be marked to avoid reclaiming.

							matz.