Hi,

I am quite new to the ruby community, having discovered it by accident on my
linux machine.  I became quite interested and scoured what there was of the
documents in english (and considered learning japanese).  Now, I have a
decent grasp of it after quite a while of experimenting.

My only question, is on how to save processor time.  I have figured that
most of it is eaten away by garbage collection, and I was wondering if
anyone has experimented with other forms of it, or changing it around to try
and save time.

I have experimented with it a little bit myself, but I do not have a large
enough understanding of it yet to really be able to do anything very useful.
I have gone through what I could find of the archives, and only found this
mentioned briefly a couple of times.  (if I managed to miss a post that
happened to deal with this directly, my apologies)

-Mikkie Avatar