[ruby-core:71617] [Ruby trunk - Feature #11664] [PATCH] introduce rb_autoload_value to replace rb_autoload

Issue #11664 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

Description updated

The new function looks fine to me, but why deprecating `rb_autoload`?

We used to append `_str` in many cases, IIRC.

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Feature #11664: [PATCH] introduce rb_autoload_value to replace rb_autoload
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11664#change-55017

* 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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