From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2008-05-09T03:05:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparing String with Symbol

* Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> (19:17) schrieb:

> 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 :)

No, that depends on how much space is available.

mfg,                         simon .... l