[ruby-core:49464] [Ruby 1.8 - Bug #5698][Rejected] rexml Encoding logic creates unnecessary singleton classes, aliases at runtime

Issue #5698 has been updated by kou (Kouhei Sutou).

Status changed from Open to Rejected

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/ says "We continue to provide normal maintenance for 1.8.7 as usual, until June 2012. ... After that we stop bugfixes.". Now, "after June 2012" is true. So I close this.
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Bug #5698: rexml Encoding logic creates unnecessary singleton classes, aliases at runtime
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5698#change-32998

Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: lib
Target version: Ruby 1.8.7
ruby -v: 1.8.7 head


The logic for switching a given parser to a new encoding currently does the following:

* Reopens the Encoding module (only on first use of the encoding)
* Defines two new methods for the encoding being applied (only on first use)
* Singletonizes the parser object and aliases the encoding-specific methods to "encode" and "decode"

This last phase is unnecessary, but happens at runtime whenever an encoding is applied to a parser. The resulting singletonizing and method aliasing causes cache flushes.

I have created a patch that does not use this singleton logic and which will not cause any singletons or method table updates at steady-state.

https://gist.github.com/1420708

I know 1.8.7 is only in security patch mode, but I thought I'd throw this out there. JRuby will probably apply it to our fork of 1.8.7 stdlib.


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