{"id":6828,"date":"2013-01-22T19:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2013-01-22T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T01:05:03","slug":"introduction-to-garbage-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/introduction-to-garbage-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Garbage Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/furious-waterfall-55.heroku.com\/ruby-guide\/internals\/gc.html\">nari (translated by Chris White)<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/previous.delicious.com\/url\/ca9ec2e2cc376750111da9dd60ad51f5\">Jonathan Rentzsch<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/furious-waterfall-55.heroku.com\/ruby-guide\/internals\/gc.html\"><p>It seems as though the majority opinion about garbage collection is &ldquo;As long as everything works okay behind the scenes I&rsquo;m all okay.&rdquo; However garbage collection is one of the taken for granted features that is built into a good number of language processors. It would not hurt as a programmer to properly understand the structure and internal implementation of garbage collection.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He starts off with some bookshelf examples and then explains how Ruby&rsquo;s garbage collector works.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nari (translated by Chris White) (via Jonathan Rentzsch): It seems as though the majority opinion about garbage collection is &ldquo;As long as everything works okay behind the scenes I&rsquo;m all okay.&rdquo; However garbage collection is one of the taken for granted features that is built into a good number of language processors. It would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[288,71,287],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-garbargecollection","tag-programming","tag-ruby"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}