From: jean.boussier@... Date: 2020-02-14T14:19:22+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:97165] [Ruby master Feature#16029] Expose fstring related APIs to C-extensions Issue #16029 has been updated by byroot (Jean Boussier). > it makes sense to add an official API as well that does not depend on dynamic invocation It's not just about the dynamic invocation. Sure it's a bit slower but not a huge deal. It's mostly that to get to that invocation you need to first allocate a duplicate string. The ideal API would allow to pass a char* to avoid all this garbage. For context our app loads a lot of static data from flat files (json / yaml / messagepack) for a total of over 5M objects (~25% of the allocations during boot). 80% of that ends up deduplicated later on by `String#-@`. I believe that if json / psych / messagepack had access to `rb_fstring_cstr`, I could avoid allocating all these useless objects and save a lot of GC time (~30% of our boot time is spent in GC, 25% marking and 5% sweeping). ---------------------------------------- Feature #16029: Expose fstring related APIs to C-extensions https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16029#change-84271 * Author: byroot (Jean Boussier) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- As discussed with @tenderlove here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2287#issuecomment-513865160 We'd like to update various data format parsers (JSON, MessagePack, etc) to add the possibility to deduplicate strings while parsing. But unfortunately the `rb_fstring_*` family of functions isn't available to C-extensions, so the only available fallback is `rb_funcall(str, rb_intern("-@"))` which most parsers will likely consider too slow. So the various `rb_fstring_*` functions would need to be public. Proposed patch: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2299 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: <mailto:ruby-core-request@ruby-lang.org?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>