Error compiling ruby-libxml

Speaking of memory leaks, how greedy for memory can I be in these modern
times, when you can’t tell the AC’s from the DC’s (but I digress)

I am used to having a severely limited pool of memory. 64k per Pascal Unit
and 64k of data.

How much memory can I burn in ruby? Am I only limited by RAM + Swap on the
box I am using. What are the penalities for using much memory?

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From: ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr]
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Subject: Re: error compiling ruby-libxml

Also, little memory leak.

Guy Decoux

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How much memory can I burn in ruby? Am I only limited by RAM + Swap on the
box I am using. What are the penalities for using much memory?

Imagine that I write :

   100000.times do
      a = XML::SaxParser.new
      GC.start
   end

Do you accept to see the memory increase ?

Guy Decoux