From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-12-06T11:23:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Ruby "compile" strings?

El Domingo, 6 de Diciembre de 2009, Marnen Laibow-Koser escribió:
> > Is it imposible due to the design of Ruby?
> 
> It's not impossible at all: just use symbols instead of strings.

What do you mean with symbols? do you mean using the following?:

  puts Benchmark.realtime { 1.upto(500000) {|i| :"hello_world".to_s.upcase } }

I expect the same results as when converting the symbol to string (to_s) Ruby 
would generate a new string for each iteration, am I wrong?

Thanks.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>