From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-12-21T04:52:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20729] Re: [Feature #905] Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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.

Did anyone suggest String.capacity(100) yet? The sense would be obvious 
to ruby extension writers.

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