Ruby is a gc language, we shouldn't be doing workaround to free memory when
Ruby is perfectly
capable of doing so.
The problem is that talloc wants to be smart, and Ruby and talloc both fight to
free memory. We can
let Ruby win by stealing all the objects from talloc control.
Thanks to the previous cleanup patches it's now possible to easily do this.
In order to test this series I've used the following script:
require 'notmuch'
$db = Notmuch::Database.new(ENV['HOME'] + '/mail')
$do_destroy = true
while true
query = $db.query('')
threads = query.search_threads
threads.each do |thread|
puts '%s: %s' % [thread.thread_id, thread.subject]
thread.destroy! if $do_destroy
end
threads.destroy! if $do_destroy
query.destroy! if $do_destroy
end
$db.close
All threads from the database are fetched over and over with no significant
increase in memory.
The old method of destroying objects with destroy! still works, but now it's
not necessary.
I tried other methods, like increasing the reference counter and adding a
second parent to talloc
objects, but for some reason they didn't work. I investiged why but couldn't
reach any conclussion.
On the other hand the talloc_steal approach works perfectly fine.
Felipe Contreras (2):
ruby: create an actual wrapper struct
ruby: enable garbage collection using talloc
bindings/ruby/database.c | 2 +-
bindings/ruby/defs.h | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
bindings/ruby/extconf.rb | 1 +
bindings/ruby/init.c | 6 ++++++
4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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2.31.1
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