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New for Ruby 3.4: Modular Garbage Collection and MMTk (railsatscale.com)
6 points by ufuk on Jan 8, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This is very exciting - important foundational work to underpin Ruby performance improvements.

Thank you for all the effort!


This post describes the new modular garbage collection feature in Ruby 3.4: The ability to override Ruby's GC at runtime. We also introduce our first concrete alternative GC implementation, based on the Memory Management Toolkit (MMTk).




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