From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw@...>
Date: 2001-12-28T17:11:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29519] Re: C extensions: ruby and C strings

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:42:50PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> |1) Should I free string here or is it used as string buffer by Ruby ?
> |	
> |	char *cstr;
> |	VALUE rstr;
> |
> |	rstr = rb_str_new2(cstr);
> |	free (cstr); // ???
> 
> rb_str_new2() copies c string, so that you have to free cstr.

Is there any method for creating Ruby string from C string without
allocating and copying ? In case when cstr is big (more than a few kilobytes),
it might be major performance gain.