From: Sam Smoot <ssmoot@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T02:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamically generate a symbol name

On Dec 11, 9:45 am, Gary Wright <gwtm...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Sam Smoot wrote:
>
>
>
> > :"object#{n}" is the syntax. Or just "object#{n}".to_sym.
>
> > I would avoid doing this though. Symbols aren't meant to represent
> > infinite variations. They're stored in a Hash internally, so the more
> > symbols you add, the slower they get.
>
> Hash table performance shouldn't be affected by size, that is the
> whole point of using a hash table.
>
> The memory footprint will grow as you add symbols and
> since symbols are not garbage collected in MRI you might
> end up with a memory leak if you are constantly generating
> new symbols.
>
> Gary Wright

Ahh, thanks Gary. Guess that's my lack of a CompSci degree showing
through. ;-)