Re: Threads preventing garbage collection?

Ara Howard wrote:
but that it expected? you have a Foo which referes to a Thread which
has not died that is itself referred to by the global Thread.list

cfp:~ > ruby -e' 41.times{ Thread.new{ sleep } }; p Thread.list.size '
42

Foo ------------>
thread
thread list ---->

I don't think this should prevent garbage collection of Foo, if nothing
is holding a reference to Foo
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