From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-28T17:28:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29520] Re: C extensions: ruby and C strings

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:29519] Re: C extensions: ruby and C strings"
    on 01/12/28, Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw@users.sf.net> writes:

|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.

No (not yet).  I allocate string first instead of malloc, then use its
buffer as a c string.  It is sufficient for most of the cases.  But
your proposal is reasonable.  I will consider it.

							matz.