Ruby does not use reference counting. It has a mark and sweep generational gc th...

yxhuvud on March 31, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)

Ruby does not use reference counting. It has a mark and sweep generational gc that is incremental and use compaction. I doubt it would be state of the art, but it is not too bad nowadays.

ngrilly on March 31, 2024 [–]

My mistake. Thanks for correcting.