[#5563] Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>

Lately, I've been thinking about the future of ruby

44 messages 2005/08/19
[#5564] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/08/19

On 8/19/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#5571] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/08/19

--- Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#5574] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — TRANS <transfire@...> 2005/08/20

Just wanted to add a few things.

[#5581] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/08/20

On 8/19/05, TRANS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#5583] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/08/20

Hi --

[#5585] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/08/20

--- "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#5609] Pathname#walk for traversing path nodes (patch) — ES <ruby-ml@...>

Here is a small addition to Pathname against 1.9, probably suited

20 messages 2005/08/22

CoW [Was: Re: Wilderness Project]

From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-08-25 18:29:06 UTC
List: ruby-core #5681
On 24 Aug 2005, at 23:16, Charles E. Thornton wrote:

> Can someone tell me the CONCEPT behind the
> flags STR_ASSOC and ELTS_SHARED  and
> the usage of
>    union {
>    long capa;
>    VALUE shared;
>    } aux;
> in RString and RArray?
>
> What I need is a general explanation that I can
> then relate to the code.

They are for copy-on-write.

> -----------------------------------
> If possible a short Ruby Program to
> exercise these features

I don't know of any way to show that these work from Ruby itself.  I  
suppose you could make a really huge string, then grab a chunk of it  
(all but one element) and then modify the chunk and see your memory  
usage go up.

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