From: Kornelius Kalnbach Date: 2010-03-07T22:20:55+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:28548] Re: [Feature #905] Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer On 07.03.10 06:57, Yusuke ENDOH wrote: > Hmm, I guess you saw physical memory size allocated. > On many platform, physical memory is not allocated until > writing into the page actually occurs. I didn't know that. Thanks! [murphy]