From: "wycats (Yehuda Katz)" <wycats@...>
Date: 2013-11-05T07:49:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:58159] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9079][Open] Interpolated	Symbol creates unnecessary intermediate String on the heap


Issue #9079 has been reported by wycats (Yehuda Katz).

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Bug #9079: Interpolated Symbol creates unnecessary intermediate String on the heap
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9079

Author: wycats (Yehuda Katz)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p343 (2013-10-31) [x86_64-linux]
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN


This case:

  x = "world"
  y = :"hello#{world}!"

allocates one T_STRING according to ObjectSpace.count_objects. Since all of the concatenation happens as part of the symbol generation, it shouldn't be necessary to create a Ruby string.


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