From: Ryan Davis Date: 2011-02-24T07:05:41+09:00 Subject: Re: a, b = Array.new(2).map!{|x| data.dup} On Feb 23, 2011, at 14:00 , niklas | brueckenschlaeger wrote: > Are you sure you can't rework your code to *not* copy data 5x? I assume > you're doing conversion between formats, so the output will be something > completely else anyway. No need to work in-place then (which I assume is > the reason you're dup-ing). *ding **ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* WE HAVE A WINNAR!