> I do mind when it's an actual leak -- in this case, the objects in 
> question
> are pretty heavyweight, and if I create a few thousand threads that way, 
> I'll
> have a few thousand of them stuck forever.


If you're trying to have a multi-threaded app be GC-sane, your options 
are MBARI patches, ruby 1.9, or jruby. AFAIK.
GL!
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