From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-03-18T02:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby "Speedup" hints?

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:01:51 +0100, Robert Klemme wrote:
> - freeze Strings that you are going to use as Hash keys.

Is that in any way a speedup hint? or is it just a safety hint? What 
causes the speedup?

--Ken

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Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/