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riffraff on Dec 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1

I have no idea of the size in other language implementations, but notice 40 bytes is on x86-64, on 32 bit it's either 20 or 24.

joevandyk on Dec 30, 2013 [–]

this is why running large ruby apps on 64 bit OSs can take up a lot more memory than 32 bit.

riffraff on Dec 30, 2013 | [–]

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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