From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-08-08T09:36:14+09:00
Subject: Re: An integer's life span?

On Aug 7, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Jeremy Henty wrote:

> On 2006-08-07, Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (1..100000).each {|i|...}
>>
>> Now there are 100000 integers in the memory which won't die.
>
> No there aren't.  Immediate values don't allocate anything in memory.
> [... an accurate description of class Fixnum's implementation]

Also, since a Fixnum is immediate, it doesn't "have" instance  
variables because there's no Object to store them in.  Instead they  
are stored somewhere else.  (Where isn't terribly important.)

The instance variables will consume memory, of course.

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