On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 04:06:20PM +0900, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > I wrote a patch to Ruby 1.6.0pre2's gc.c that makes gc frequency inversely > proportional to the number of currently allocated objects, so that % of > time spent on GC remains about the same. A little question :) I have probed the examples occur.rb and occur.pl with a big file (~ 2.5 Mb). The difference is enormous between Perl and Ruby (~4 s vs. ~15 s). My question is: can this patch resolv situation making Ruby a bit faster in this case?. Thanx for very good work to everybody. Greets. David