From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-05-18T20:56:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby garbage collection

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 08:35:11PM +0900, Gaffer wrote:
> i need this for a realtime game application which has embedded ruby -- after
> destroying all objects in my scene and recreating everything, ruby gc takes
> about 10seconds to 'think it through' and collect all garbage... during
> which time the framerate drops in half
> 
> i'd much rather it was all done in one hit in between levels, but i cannot
> find an API to do this, and GC.start seems async
> 
> so,
> 
> assuming GC.start is asynchronous, is there a way to force mark/sweep GC to
> occur, blocking for however long it takes to complete?

AFAIK GC.start forces GC to take place right away:
gc.c

...

rb_define_singleton_method(rb_mGC, "start", rb_gc_start, 0);

...

VALUE
rb_gc_start()
{
    rb_gc();

...
void
rb_gc()
{
 
[marks stuff]

     gc_sweep();
}

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