From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-04-02T18:19:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols garbage collector in Ruby1.9, fixed?

2009/4/2 Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>:

> Actually, I'm pretty sure that Symbols are faster as hash keys because
> Hash#== is O(1) while String#== is O(n) where n is the length of the string.
> That said, the HashWithIndifferentAccess class in activesupport  allows
> either strings or symbols to be used interchangeably as the key argument in
> methods like [] and []=, but it always USES the string form as the key.

Oh, then it's better just to use strings, I don't need to support
string and symbols at the same time, I just need to make a decission.

Thanks for pointing it out.



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