From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-08-06T09:57:16+09:00
Subject: Re: How to reclaim memory without GC.start

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On 8/4/07, Erik Veenstra <erikveen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > buffer = "." * 1024
> > while STDIN.read(1024, buffer)
> >   print buffer
> > end
>
> What's the point of initializing the buffer with 1024 characters,
> instead of just initializing it with an empty string? I must be
> missing something...
>
> Thanks.


I think the idea was to do the allocation upfront instead of when witting to
the string. But since that will only happen once, (on the first read) it
seems unnecessary. But I could be wrong.

gegroet,
> Erik V.
>
>
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