On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Jeremy Kemper wrote:

>
> ruby-prof includes a really nice object allocation profiler (with a
> small patch to 1.8.x) that may help verify the results you're seeing.
> It increments a live object count on allocation and decrements on
> garbage collection and runs super-fast.
>

thanks!  i've actually used that before and even taught a class that  
used it - but i'd forgotten the name!

cheers.

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