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TL;DR: Slides from a talk describing how to rewrite the Ruby VM in memory while it is running in order to collect garbage which Ruby is not clever enough to col

TL;DR: Slides from a talk describing how to rewrite the Ruby VM in memory while it is running in order to collect garbage which Ruby is not clever enough to collect for itself. Yes, it sounds masochistic to me, too.

crux_ 17y ago
Nitpicky correction: It doesn't do any garbage collection; it helps you figure out where you are leaking references.
scott_s 17y ago
Except that it's wrapped up in a nice Ruby library, so you can benefit from someone else's masochism to get runtime memory stats on your own programs.