From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-10-01T04:43:40+09:00
Subject: Re: R

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
..
> Also high level languages tend to create many small short-lived
> objects which is more efficient with GC than with an allocator like
> malloc/free which is not allowed to move objects.

IIRC Ruby's GC never moves anything. It's mark and sweep.