From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-05-24T03:09:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Stymied by Ruby's garbage collector

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:28:42AM +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> A gc language prevents memory leaks, it makes no performance guarantees :-)

It helps to alleviate memory leaks, but it does not prevent them.  I can
still get memory leaks by forgetting to remove a reference to an object
from a hash, or by not being careful when registering finalizers.

Paul