On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Eric Sven Ristad wrote:
> It would be great if Ruby would instrument system resources, such as
> user cpu time, system cpu time, current process size, and current
> memory allocation.  Having direct access to these quantities in Ruby
> would be useful both in debugging libraries and benchmarking parts of
> programs in context of actual use.



I wrote a few mails (and a patch) about garbage collection. I had a
beginning of object accounting and memory accounting and such, but did not
get very far. 



	[ruby-talk:5058] Re: GC patch
	[ruby-talk:5570] Notes about GC
	[ruby-talk:5558] GC: malloc_memories
	[ruby-talk:5917] gc.c.diff
	[ruby-talk:6064] xmalloc(), xfree()
	[ruby-talk:6192] Re: xmalloc(), xfree()
	[ruby-talk:6906] Re: xmalloc(), xfree()



matju