From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2008-05-09T02:17:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparing String with Symbol

Albert Schlef wrote:
> Michael Neumann wrote:
>>>  # uses up memory in a hurry :)
>> This one isn't better, despite being shorter ;-)
>>
>>   a = []; loop { a << 1 }
> 
> A slight improvement is to change '1' to '1.0'. A Fixnum doesn't 
> allocate an object structure.

Yes, but it will run out space regardless :)

Regards,

   Michael