From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T05:29:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21648] symbols able to eat up memory in 1.8

Currently in 1.8.7

loop { rand(10000000).to_s.to_sym }

eats up all available memory.  1.9 avoids this by limiting the size of
the symbol table.
Is that worthy of a backport request do you think?

Thanks!
-=r