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| 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 |
| Organization | Service de news de lacave.net |
| Message-ID | <ea7db33bcdb5c9faf62bd9581c3443a3@ruby-forum.com> (permalink) |
| References | <24b916bbe5f647533b379407fffb83e9@ruby-forum.com> <313bbaeb2103f9ad4323556c4fc5730f@ruby-forum.com> <BANLkTi=NknK1176QkM=0Wo=ThHSw+KD_1w@mail.gmail.com> |
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 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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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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