It runs when Ruby runs out of memory or when it's manually invoked (by
ObjectSpace.garbage_collect or GC.start).

Bill

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 07:06:36 +0900, "EustáÒuio Rangel de Oliveira Jr."
<eustaquiorangel / yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> Hey, how often the garbage collector runs?
> When all the memory becomes full?
> Or there is a pre-defined interval?
> 
> And, do you have some links about the the Ruby mark-and-sweep type of
> garbage?
> 
> Thanks! :-)
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> EustáÒuio "TaQ" Rangel
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> http://beam.to/taq
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$stdout.sync = true
"Just another Ruby hacker.".each_byte do |b|
  ('a'..'z').step do|c|print c+"\b";sleep 0.007 end;print b.chr
end; print "\n"