From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-08-04T11:32:15+09:00
Subject: Re: GzipReader problem

In article <ceorhk$1cl@odak26.prod.google.com>,
  "StephenSykes" <jbshaldane@hotmail.com> writes:

> The failing example is indeed interesting.  My marshalled object is
> 1.2Mb uncompressed.  And Marshal uses over 90,000 reads requests to
> read it.  And nearly 40,000 of those requests are for 0 bytes.

As reading marshal.c, it seems that read(0) is called with an empty
string (""), an empty regexp (//) and a bignum zero
(0x40000000.coerce(0)[0]).

So I guess you have nearly 40,000 empty strings.

Note that I don't think empty regexps and bignum zeros are used so
frequently.
-- 
Tanaka Akira