From: "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...>
Date: 2013-01-14T15:11:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection and Fibers

	Subject: Re: Garbage Collection and Fibers
	Date: Mon 14 Jan 13 09:43:20AM +0900

Quoting Na Na (lists@ruby-forum.com):

> * Reduce the number of objects I use

I think this is the wisest option at your disposal. When a GC'ed
language is embraced, you obtain great advantages, but at the cost of
some compromises. 

You will of course need to refactor, but the result will be better,
and you will learn a lot in the process. 

If you find yourself in the situation you describe, it means that you
are constantly creating and throwing away lots of objects. Think about
what can be reused. Divide your object logic between stuff that you
often need and stuff you rarely use. Stuff used often is better
created at beginning and never thrown away.

What I generally do is create a main class for my application. The
first code I write is its initialize method, which creates and assigns
to instance variables the material I am supposed to always have
available.

> * Use something other than ruby for my app (nowhere near an ideal
> option!)

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! 8-)

Carlo

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