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Very nice to see improvement in Ruby's GC. Back in Ruby 1.8 days, I read the source of the GC implementation and I was less than impressed. I should take the ti
by exDM69 13y ago
Very nice to see improvement in Ruby's GC. Back in Ruby 1.8 days, I read the source of the GC implementation and I was less than impressed. I should take the time and revisit that code to see what kind of improvements have been done.
- jmcgough 13y agoThis is a bit old now, but this blog post has a great description of the GC changes that came with MRI 2.0: http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/3/23/why-you-should-be-excited-about-garbage-collection-in-ruby-2-0 http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/3/23/why-you-should-be-excite...
- steveklabnik 13y agoIn that time frame, the interpreter has been entirely re-written, and we've gone through three or four different garbage collectors. So yeah, it should be quite different.