Some thoughts on garbage collection

[Paul Rubin]

"Frank Millman" <frank at chagford.com> writes:
> Is this a sensible approach, or are there easier ways to achieve this?

In general you're supposed to just let gc do its thing.  Doing your
own storage management defeats the purpose of gc.  At most I'd say
check for leaks by running some native extension to scan all the
in-memory objects to see if anything didn't get gc'd.