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authortenderlove <tenderlove@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2019-04-17 03:17:25 +0000
committertenderlove <tenderlove@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2019-04-17 03:17:25 +0000
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treed7705428a035cd7c4384a0e34d59415bf3de9ca4 /NEWS
parentfcd679ed11e3e801431f2f931dbe925edb8df0bf (diff)
Adding `GC.compact` and compacting GC support.
This commit adds the new method `GC.compact` and compacting GC support. Please see this issue for caveats: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15626 [Feature #15626] git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@67576 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ JIT::
* Default value of +--jit-min-calls+ is changed from 5 to 10,000
+GC::
+
+ * New `GC.compact` method for compacting the heap.
+ This function compacts live objects in the heap so that fewer pages may
+ be used, and the heap may be more CoW friendly. [Feature #15626]
+
+ Details on the algorithm and caveats can be found here:
+ https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15626
+
=== Miscellaneous changes
* Require compilers to support C99 [Misc #15347]