From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-08-11T15:46:27+09:00
Subject: Re: string.each_char

Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Presumably you use this "compact" structure because it's one object
> rather than many?  But then, each time you iterate it, you're
> generating #{string.length} temporary objects.  Perhaps it would be
> more "compact" in the long run if you used an array of strings or
> symbols?  Or a Set, depending on your access requirements.

Hm - good point. We'd need to go down the C path and separate 'char'
from 'string', so that the former could be Fixnum-type singletons. Yet
another place where C thinking doesn't map to ruby best-practice :)

martin