From: khaines@...
Date: 2007-12-30T15:27:31+09:00
Subject: Re: multibyte strings & bucket-of-bytes efficiency under 1.9.0

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, murphy wrote:

> I'm not sure if we need it...but it's more OO and looks nice.
> how would we use it though? you don't declare variables in Ruby. Strings
> are mostly generated by I/O methods (I guess File.open does return a
> byte string if you read binary) and via literals (which have the default
> encoding). no place for ByteString.new.

def initialize
   @logchunk = ByteString.new
end

def receive_data(data)
   @logchunk << data
   # stuff....

   msg = @logchunk.slice!(0..@length]
   # more stuff...
end

I'd use it something like that.

> but force_encoding(nil) seems a bit ugly as a general pattern for binary
> mode string handling. a String#binary proxy would be nice:

And in my tests, it didn't solve the problem with abysmal slice! 
performance.


Kirk Haines