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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: rack-devel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Rack and memory usage ?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:01:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150827070108.GA4011@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABGa_T83zOL=qX51J7UEpSH5nYuw7152R-x7E3qVHJ=q2j6BEg@mail.gmail.com>

James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well since YARV and the various GC tunings it's got a lot more heavy
> actually, and a lot more overhead and so on have landed in the stdlib (e.g.
> "packaged gems" and so on). This has a lot to do with the fact that the
> bulk of users for a long time have been running fat applications (e.g.
> rails).

Yeah.  Lots of the GC speed improvements (lazy sweep, generational GC)
lead to increased memory usage.  We've been trying to fight back in
ruby-core and getting ordering removed from non-Hash stuff might
promising for 2.3:

	https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11414
	https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11420

Lately, working again in Perl5 has gotten me to appreciate the control
afforded by reference counting :)

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-22 17:58 Rack and memory usage ? David Unric
2015-08-22 20:54 ` richard schneeman
2015-08-22 21:54   ` David Unric
2015-08-24 23:16     ` James Tucker
2015-08-25 12:17       ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-08-27  7:01       ` Eric Wong [this message]

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