Issue #744 has been updated by Roger Pack. > If we knew what wrote these, we might be able to explicitly clear them > once > they go out of scope. This should result in better significantly GC > performance all around. Yeah I've wondered that too. Maybe we can have a hackfest for it some saturday :) http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/649 is related [and somewhat frustrating to be honest]. My thought is that maybe there's a way to "clear the stack" of data that isn't currently "useful" and thus clear it of old references [I realize this may be hard]. Thoughts? -=R ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/744 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org