[Wtr-general] OT: odd memory behavior question

[Chris Morris]

Bret Pettichord wrote:
> You need to run the garbage collector. It is something like this:
>
>   GC.start

FWIW, I dunno about Ruby's GC, but with GC in things like Java and C#, 
I've heard that telling GC to start or run is really treated more as a 
hint, a prodding, but won't always give the same results, just due to 
the nature of how GCs work.

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Chris
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