From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-10T21:51:30+09:00
Subject: Re: a better way to do this job?

Hi --

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Julian Leviston wrote:

> Slices and 'sub-arrays' aren't copies of the objects, they simply refer to 
> the identical objects.

The same can be said of any array; the objects inside it exist (in
many cases, at least) already. Still, container objects do take up
memory. If you don't believe it, try this:

   ruby -e 'a = [:a,:b,:c]; b = []; while true; b << a[0,3]; end'


David

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