[plinkplonk]

"AFAIK the interpreter has no intrinsic leaks, "

ok if what you say is true then Brad's blog post is just wrong isn't it?. Either he is right or you are.

Holding onto objects sounds like something user code does so "ruby leaks" is (or should be) not correct usage I think.

I use python I don't use Ruby, but "Python leaks", as a claim, is different from "my program written in python leaks memory".

the blog post seems to imply it is Ruby's fault. At least it reads that way ("Ruby leaks") hence my confusion. Thanks for the clarification

EDIT: I stand corrected. It seems like Tom is right and the ruby interpreter leaks memory! Incredible!