Improving the Ruby GC - LloydForgeImproving the Ruby GC overview This page details some changes to the ruby garbage collector which seem to afford a 25% reduction in maximum heap memory usage, and nearly double the amount of heap space ruby's is able to reclaim. This comes at the cost of a 2% performance hit. More to come, stay tuned. patch The latest patch to ruby 1.8.6 is available here. summary of changes Fixed 2k heaps Hea
