[ruby-talk:04443] Re: Ruby GC

Aleksi Niemel<[e-mail]> writes:

> I thought we might be talking about Ruby GC more, so I started new thread.
> 
> Loiterers in Ruby stdlib?
> 
> What does our experienced Japanese team say, do there exist loiterers in
> Ruby's standard lib? A lot? Something one should be careful when dealing
> with?

I've seen no obvious evidence of any in the (admittedly limited) tests
I've done. If there are, I'd suspect I'd see them in the GUI stuff.

> For Dave: could, or should, there be some automatic testing for these
> aspects of GCing. Maybe that should be part of the stress test.

I think that before anyone starts doing any work on garbage collection, 
we first need to establish a set of benchmarks, just so we can
determine if changes are doing any good. I suspect garbage collection
is one of those areas full of subtleties: make a change to improve case
A, and case B suddenly dies.

I also agree that we could benefit from finding expert outside advice: 
with the advent of languages with GC, it's a hot topic.

Finally, I'd say that this is Matz's call.


Regards

Dave