From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T07:47:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Mem Leak Issue

John Woods wrote:
>  >> Array.new(1000000) {str}
> 
> Isn't the above still just an array of 1000000 refs to the same string? 
> Perhaps you meant str.dup?

Oops, you're right. Using #dup or the following will work:

a = Array.new(5) {"str"}
p a.map {|s| s.object_id}.uniq.size # => 5

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