From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T12:05:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20681] Re: [Feature #905] Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer

Dave Thomas wrote:
> (presumably n is in bytes, not characters)

Yes, I'm thinking bytes myself. Presumably you either want just a byte 
buffer or you know how many bytes you need to allocate for the character 
encoding you intend.