From: Roger Pack <lists@...>
Date: 2012-06-15T05:05:25+09:00
Subject: Re: MRI GC never collects?

> That code appears to just eat memory forever, and never run the
> finalizers.
>
> Am I missing anything here? Is it reproducible for y'all?

Looks like I fell victim to the "never use a proc or block for a 
finalizer" trick.

http://www.mikeperham.com/2010/02/24/the-trouble-with-ruby-finalizers/

The working version would be as follows:

def finalized_proc benign
    proc { puts benign.to_s }
end

n = 0
loop {
  a = [3]
  ObjectSpace.define_finalizer(a, finalized_proc(n))
  n += 1
  if n % 10000 == 0
    print '.'
  end
}

Jruby must be pretty smart to be able to avoid this somehow.
-roger-

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