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Estragon
on March 15, 2010
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Descent into Darkness: Understanding your system’s...
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_
on March 15, 2010
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Nitpicky correction: It doesn't do any garbage collection; it helps you figure out where you are leaking references.
scott_s
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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.
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Yes, it sounds masochistic to me, too.