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Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby

I’ve been working on building a compacting garbage collector in Ruby for a while now, and one of the biggest hurdles for implementing a compacting GC is updating references. For example, if Object A points to Object B, but the compacting GC moves Object B, how do we make sure that Object A points to the new location?…
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Jan 23, 2018Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby by craigkerstiens22256

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