From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T00:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols and frozen strings

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Sorry... _reduce_ garbage, not avoid it altogether, since there is still 
> the T_STRING, even though the data is reused. It would help more for 
> long strings than for short strings, because the T_DATA is smaller in 
> proportion.

Sorry again... I don't know where T_DATA came from. Should be T_STRING, 
the constant-size overhead for a string object. Will stop posting until 
caffeine hits.

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