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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by joevandyk on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:06PM (#6987338)
this is why running large ruby apps on 64 bit OSs can take up a lot more memory than 32 bit.
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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by riffraff on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:34PM (#6987519)
isn't that true of most platforms? I know the JVM has compressed OOPS to limit this issue, but I am not aware of similar things elsewhere.
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