From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-11-24T04:22:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20057] Re: Unexpected Performance of Symbol Construction

Kurt Stephens wrote:
> Looks like GC overhead/interaction was the culprit.  Note to self,
> remember to disable GC around benchmarks :(.

A benchmark that doesn't consider GC is a bad benchmark. Don't disable 
it; expect it.

- Charlie