Garbage-Collection on The Pragmatic Engeneerhttps://blog.iaroslavtsev.uk/tags/garbage-collection/Recent content in Garbage-Collection on The Pragmatic EngeneerHugo -- 0.152.2en-us2025 Aleksei IaroslavtsevWed, 27 Aug 2025 21:58:31 +0200Taming Ruby's Memory Bloat: A Practical Guide to Processing Large Fileshttps://blog.iaroslavtsev.uk/posts/taming-rubys-memory-bloat-a-guide-to-processing-large-files/Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.iaroslavtsev.uk/posts/taming-rubys-memory-bloat-a-guide-to-processing-large-files/A case study on how we reduced the memory footprint of a data-processing Ruby script from over 200MB to under 70MB by ditching CSV.read and adopting a streaming, batch-processing approach.