From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-09T03:16:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparing String with Symbol

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Simon Krahnke wrote:
| * 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.

Space is a finite resource. Sooner or later, that code *will* consume
all available memory.

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