From: Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov <xm@...3d.ru>
Date: 2001-06-22T16:26:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16753] Re: Symbols, and their use as hash keys


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@zetabits.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:08 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:16752] Re: Symbols, and their use as hash keys
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:16751] Re: Symbols, and their use as hash keys"
>     on 01/06/22, "Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov" <xm@w3d.ru> writes:
> 
> |> Symbols are immediate numbers.  We can compare them in one machine
> |> operation, instead of byte by byte comparison like strings.
> |Hehe ... I know this already ... but why they are _slower_ ?
> 
> because "intern" is not free, I think.  You called intern 10000 times
> once for each symbol.
The same stuff I did for string case, just not used them :)

Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov, Lead Programmer, W3D Group
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