On Jan 05, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Stefan wrote:
Am 05.01.2007 um 20:11 schrieb Daniel Stenning:
No garbage collection ??
I think what you mean is that RB uses a garbage collector that
utilises the
reference counting method.
Unless you have cycles in your object graph...
A "garbage collector" would detect unreferenceable memory (like a
cycle that has no references from the application) and destroy this
Java has such a system and it runs in a thread all of its own
RB has no such system and you can leak this sort of unreferenced
object very easily which I'm sure you're aware of
Even the engineers have, over time, said RB does NOT have garbage
collection but DOES have reference counted objects
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