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Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection

From Tridib Bandopadhyay <tridib04@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.ruby
Subject Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection
Date 2011-05-18 17:43 -0500
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Robert K. wrote in post #999427:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Tridib Bandopadhyay
> <tridib04@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have some questions::--
>>
>> 1. Is it possible to Manually free memory(without calling GC.start) by
>> extending it with C? As i have tried it and its of no use for my work.
>>
>> 2. Can I add a new file and try to manually free memory(disabling GC)?
>
> I am sure, both can be achieved with an amount of hacking Ruby's
> source code.  So: yes and yes.

What do you mean by Hacking Ruby's Code... I didn't get it.. Can you
describe me in Detail.

>
> What I do not understand: what is the aim of your research?  I mean,
> people have spent numerous hours of research and engineering to make
> automatic GC work, and you seem to be mainly concerned with adding
> manual memory management to a language which has automatic GC.  What
> is the point of your research?
>
> Kind regards
>
> robert


Yeah i know that.. But since Ruby is Using Stop the World concept. So I
was thinking of not letting the GC to come and free memory every time
for small objects,Stopping the code. So I just want to check if it can
be helpful or not...

Thanks...

Regards

Tridib

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Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection Tridib Bandopadhyay <tridib04@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 14:58 -0500
  Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-18 02:12 -0500
    Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection Tridib Bandopadhyay <tridib04@gmail.com> - 2011-05-18 17:43 -0500
      Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-18 18:18 -0500
      Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection JK Victor <johnkvictor@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 18:50 -0500
      Re: Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-19 02:44 -0500

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