From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-08-14T23:44:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19694] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 05:09 am, Ron Jeffries wrote:
> Matz refers to Smalltalk #become: which is typically
> implemented by searching out all references to the old object and
> replacing them with the new. This is costly in the extreme.

matju recently posted a 16 line patch that implements Object.become. It works 
by swapping the actual object contents. It's quite fast, as it only has to 
copy 15 longs. 

Have you tried it? http://www.ruby-talk.com/19475

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