From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-12-28T22:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: help on making ruby code faster

Robert Klemme wrote:
>>Can't Ruby currently optimize those? I frankly don't want to have to do
>>those kinds of optimization myself :-(
> 
> It does (by sharing the internal string buffer) but it still has to create
> new String instances on each run:
> 
>>>5.times { p 's'.id }
> 
> 134947060
> 134946988
> 134696172
> 134690592
> 134690544
> => 5
> 
> If it would not do this, code like this would yield unexpected results:
> 
>>>5.times { p 'abc'[1] += 1 }

I see. Suddenly I want immutable strings like in Python.

Hm, it seems optimizing Ruby programs is pretty tedious? One has to 
scorch through every string literal...

Regards,
dave