From: Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <rr.rosas@...>
Date: 2017-02-15T16:16:07-02:00
Subject: [ruby-core:79541] Re: Immutable Strings vs Symbols

Em 15-02-2017 05:05, Daniel Ferreira escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask ruby core members the following question if it is possible:
>
> With the advent of Immutable Strings in ruby 3 what will be the
> difference between Immutable Strings and Symbols?
>
> Performance wise will Immutable Strings be similar to Symbols?
>
> If we put the hypothesis of removing Symbols from ruby would that have
> any negative impact on performance?
>
> What other side effects could we envision?

Hi Daniel, you might be interested in the discussion for these two 
tickets in Redmine:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7792
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5964

Cheers,
Rodrigo.

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