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2008/1/9, ara howard <ara.t.howard / gmail.com>:
> so.... why does installing a static finalizer work ok, but a dynamic
> one leaks memory!?
>
> i'm nice and confused now.

I'd say you picked the wrong class for your tests - apparently a
lambda uses an array somehow.  This is what I see from the modified
script (attached):

10:38:52 /cygdrive/c/Temp
$ ./a.rb leak
---
Foo: 0
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
10:39:04 /cygdrive/c/Temp
$ ./a.rb noleak
---
Foo: 0
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
---
Foo: 1
10:39:08 /cygdrive/c/Temp
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-cygwin]

:-)

Kind regards

robert

-- 
use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end

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