Ruby's GC

[Jeremy Tregunna]

I'm curious if someone can point me to a technical description of
ruby's garbage collector?

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[Eric Hodel]

I'm curious if someone can point me to a technical description of
ruby's garbage collector?

There might be one in the Ruby Hacking Guide (in Japanese). Guy
Decoux might also be able to describe it for you in French, Ruby or C.

The short, english description is a conservative mark and sweep
garbage collector.

 

[Jeremy Tregunna]

There might be one in the Ruby Hacking Guide (in Japanese). Guy
Decoux might also be able to describe it for you in French, Ruby or C.

The short, english description is a conservative mark and sweep
garbage collector.

Yeah, I got that bit, was hoping for something a bit more technical in
English.

Eric Hodel - (e-mail address removed) - http://segment7.net

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Jeremy Tregunna
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the process of putting them in." --Dykstra

 

[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby's GC"

|> The short, english description is a conservative mark and sweep
|> garbage collector.
|
|Yeah, I got that bit, was hoping for something a bit more technical in
|English.

conservative

we use system stack and CPU registers for tracing root as well as
usual language roots (global/local variables etc.). jmpbuf is used
to access registers.

mark and sweep

simple mark and sweep, but uses Knuth's algorithm to avoid crash for
deep recursion.

matz.

 

[Jeremy Tregunna]

Thank you.

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby's GC"
on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:08:29 +0900, Jeremy Tregunna

|> The short, english description is a conservative mark and sweep
|> garbage collector.
|
|Yeah, I got that bit, was hoping for something a bit more technical in
|English.

conservative

we use system stack and CPU registers for tracing root as well as
usual language roots (global/local variables etc.). jmpbuf is used
to access registers.

mark and sweep

simple mark and sweep, but uses Knuth's algorithm to avoid crash for
deep recursion.

matz.


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"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be
the process of putting them in." --Dykstra

 

[Clifford Heath]

... was hoping for something a bit more technical in English.

See <http://www.memorymanagement.org/> for more details on
GC algorithms. Good site.