From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-03-30T18:38:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols garbage collector in Ruby1.9, fixed?

2009/3/30 Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com>:
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> From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net>
>>
>> A way to check if a Symbol already exist would be enought for me, but
>> it doesn't work:
>> To know all the current Symbols I can inspect Symbol.all_symbols, but
>> if I want to check a Symbol:
>>  Symbol.all_symbols.include?(:new_symbol)
>> this will always return true since :new_symbol is automatically added
>>  XDDD
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> potential_new_symbol = "xyzzy"
> Symbol.all_symbols.map {|s| s.to_s}.include? potential_new_symbol

Thanks but it is too slow:

Benchmark.realtime{ Symbol.all_symbols.map {|s| s.to_s}.include? "qwe" }
=> 0.00371980667114258

I cannot do this test for each header in each received message.

Thanks.




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> Regards,
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> Bil
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