From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T08:38:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance Issues with nil, true, false as Hash Keys (1.8.6)

Hi,

At Thu, 4 Oct 2007 06:16:24 +0900,
> It appears that hash.c is not optimized for T_NIL, T_FALSE and T_TRUE. 
> The following patch (against 1.8.6-p110) should fix that:
> 
> --- hash.c.orig 2007-10-03 22:54:34.000000000 +0200
> +++ hash.c      2007-10-03 22:55:14.000000000 +0200
> @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@
>       switch (TYPE(a)) {
>         case T_FIXNUM:
>         case T_SYMBOL:
> +      case T_NIL:
> +      case T_FALSE:
> +      case T_TRUE:
>          return (int)a;
>          break;

Perhaps, `if (IMMEDIATE_P(a))' equals it and would be faster a bit.

-- 
Nobu Nakada