From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-04-05T02:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: About efficiency

Hi,

In message "Re: About efficiency"
    on 02/04/05, Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> writes:

|> In ruby, identifiers are handled as numeric ID commonly.  Don't
|> you mean this?
|
|Sort of - are the names converted to ID's at compile time or run-time?

Compile time.

|Well, with a cache, you wouldn't need to know the order until first
|encountered.  If you don't allow the removal or deletion of members,
|then once cached, the index will always be valid.

Unfortunately, Ruby allows method removal.

							matz.