From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-12-06T11:29:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Ruby "compile" strings?

Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 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?

Only one per iteration -- 'HELLO WORLD'.  Your original implementation 
would generate two new String objects for each iteration.

> 
> Thanks.

Best,
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