[ruby-core:35379] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4447] [Open] add String#byteslice() method

On Feb 25, 2011, at 4:52 AM, Martin J. Dst wrote:

> string.force_encoding(ENCODING::BINARY).slice almost does what you want, very efficiently. The problem is that the string will then be marked as BINARY. This can be set back, but it may affect operations that run in parallel. To expand on this, something like

Isn't any manipulation of a string via two threads simultaneously already not thread safe?

That is to say, toggling the encoding doesn't make the situation any worse than it is with String#slice all by itself.

Gary Wright