From: normalperson@...
Date: 2015-11-06T03:54:21+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:71369] [Ruby trunk - Feature #11664] [Open] [PATCH] introduce rb_autoload_value to replace rb_autoload

Issue #11664 has been reported by Eric Wong.

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Feature #11664: [PATCH] introduce rb_autoload_value to replace rb_autoload
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11664

* Author: Eric Wong
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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rb_autoload_value may be safer by preventing premature GC.  It
can also be more efficient by passing a pre-frozen string that
can be deduped using rb_fstring.  Common autoload callers (e.g.
rubygems, rdoc) already use string literals as the file
argument.

There seems to be no reason to expose rb_autoload_value to the
public C API since autoload is not performance-critical.
Applications may declare autoloads in Ruby code or via
rb_funcall; so merely deprecate rb_autoload without exposing
rb_autoload_value to new users.

Running: valgrind -v ruby -rrdoc -rubygems -e exit
shows a minor memory reduction (32-bit userspace)

before:

  in use at exit: 1,600,621 bytes in 28,819 blocks
total heap usage: 55,786 allocs, 26,967 frees, 6,693,790 bytes allocated

after:

  in use at exit: 1,599,778 bytes in 28,789 blocks
total heap usage: 55,739 allocs, 26,950 frees, 6,692,973 bytes allocated


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0001-introduce-rb_autoload_value-to-replace-rb_autoload.patch (3.89 KB)


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