From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T16:27:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20716] Re: [Feature #905] Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer

Gary Wright wrote:
> How about:
> 
> String.reserve(100)
> Array.reserve(100)

"reserve" is pretty good. I'll abstain from commenting on any other 
forms since I really just want the single-param fixnum version myself.