[ruby-core:42407] [ruby-trunk - Feature #905] Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer

Issue #905 has been updated by Motohiro KOSAKI.


Matz, should we close this ticket?
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Feature #905: Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/905

Author: Charles Nutter
Status: Feedback
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
Category: 
Target version: 2.0.0


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 Because Strings are used in ruby as arbitrary byte buffers, and because the cost of growing a String increases as it gets larger (especially when it starts small), String.new should support a form that takes a fixnum and ensures the backing store will have at least that much room. This is analogous to Array.new(fixnum) which does the same thing.
 
 The simple implementation of this would just add a Fixnum check to the String.new method, and the result would be an empty string with that size buffer. This would allow heavy string-appending algorithms and libraries (like ERb) to avoid doing so many memory copies while they run.
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