[#393012] Basic Ruby performance — Dmitry Nikiforov <dniq@...>

Hello all!

43 messages 2012/02/02
[#393013] Re: Basic Ruby performance — Dmitry Nikiforov <dniq@...> 2012/02/02

Here's another example with significantly bigger performance difference:

[#393015] Re: Basic Ruby performance — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2012/02/02

[#393016] Re: Basic Ruby performance — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...> 2012/02/02

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>wrote:

[#393020] Re: Basic Ruby performance — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2012/02/03

[#393076] Problem migrating to Ruby 1.9.2 — Patrick Bayford <pbayford@...>

Some assistance please - I have a Ruby project, which I started in Ruby

10 messages 2012/02/03

[#393164] Using _ like in Scala? — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>

fruits = %w( apple banana orange )

27 messages 2012/02/06
[#393201] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2012/02/07

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:

[#393204] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...> 2012/02/07

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@gmail.com> wrote:

[#393206] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2012/02/07

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Eric Christopherson <

[#393208] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Kevin <darkintent@...> 2012/02/07

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@gmail.com> wrote:

[#393216] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/02/07

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> wrote:

[#393219] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2012/02/07

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

[#393220] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/02/07

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

[#393240] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2012/02/08

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

[#393254] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/02/08

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

[#393259] Re: Using _ like in Scala? — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2012/02/08

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

[#393181] Tork 18.0.0 — "Suraj N. Kurapati" <sunaku@...>

Tork - Test with fork - https://github.com/sunaku/tork#readme

16 messages 2012/02/06
[#393183] Re: [ANN] Tork 18.0.0 — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/02/06

You have faster major version release cycle than Chrome...

[#393189] Re: [ANN] Tork 18.0.0 — Quintus <sutniuq@...> 2012/02/06

Am 06.02.2012 22:07, schrieb Bartosz Dziewoナгki:

[#393203] Re: Tork 18.0.0 — Suraj Kurapati <sunaku@...> 2012/02/07

Marvin Gテシlker wrote in post #1044440:

[#393347] Symbol garbage collection — Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>

I've always wondered why Ruby didn't do garbage collection of symbols,

13 messages 2012/02/10

[#393402] Who Administrates this list and how can the community help save this list from the noise. — andrew mcelroy <sophrinix@...>

It is very clear that this list has been under a incredibly heavy

21 messages 2012/02/11
[#393403] Re: Who Administrates this list and how can the community help save this list from the noise. — serialhex <serialhex@...> 2012/02/11

+1

[#393407] Re: Who Administrates this list and how can the community help save this list from the noise. — Cathy Alomari <cathy1428@...> 2012/02/11

Good luck, I doubt anyone is paying attention. I have seen numerous

[#393410] Re: Who Administrates this list and how can the community help save this list from the noise. — "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...> 2012/02/11

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Cathy Alomari <cathy1428@gmail.com> wrote:

[#393430] Re: Who Administrates this list and how can the community help save this list from the noise. — Cathy Alomari <cathy1428@...> 2012/02/13

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@gmail.com>wrote:

[#393432] Re: Who Administrates this list and how can the community help save this list from the noise. — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/02/13

2012/2/13 Cathy Alomari <cathy1428@gmail.com>:

[#393434] Re: Who Administrates this list and how can the community help save this list from the noise. — Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@...> 2012/02/13

> Have you tried mailing ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org (mailto:ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org) with "unsubscribe"

[#393412] the ruby syntax — maven apache <apachemaven0@...>

Hi:

19 messages 2012/02/12
[#393413] Re: the ruby syntax — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/02/12

When a hash is the last argument to a method, you can skip its open-

[#393416] Re: the ruby syntax — maven apache <apachemaven0@...> 2012/02/12

2012/2/12 Bartosz Dziewoナгki <matma.rex@gmail.com>

[#393435] Re: the ruby syntax — Saji Hameed <saji@...> 2012/02/13

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:49 PM, maven apache <apachemaven0@gmail.com> wrote:

[#393546] Difference between 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 — James French <James.French@...>

module A <- line 1

12 messages 2012/02/20

[#393548] Accessing a local variable through a symbol — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

Let's say I have

11 messages 2012/02/20

[#393671] Rubymoticons — Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...>

I was demonstrating injection of a symbol, and noticed a familiar

12 messages 2012/02/28

Re: Symbol garbage collection

From: Sigurd <cu9ypd@...>
Date: 2012-02-10 14:37:06 UTC
List: ruby-talk #393363
Hi,
Ruby store all object, method and variable names as a symbols. That's why symbol GC might be dangerous.
The only thing i'm not clear about is the rb_gc_mark_symbols method that is implemented in parse.y and is called for every GC round.
Can someone explain what's its purpose?

On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Robert Klemme
> <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/2/10 Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>:
>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Robert Klemme
>>> <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I've always wondered why Ruby didn't do garbage collection of symbols,
>>>>> when Lisp implementations here and there did so, and in fact they are
>>>>> essential in macro programming because Lisp programs tend to create a
>>>>> lot of unique symbols at runtime, especially in macro code, with such
>>>>> contrivances as gensym in Scheme and Common Lisp and uniq in Arc.
>>>> 
>>>> In Ruby the idea is rather to only use a fixed amount of Symbols in
>>>> the program and use Strings for everything that changes often.
>>> 
>>> I have a question about this rule of thumb: did this rule came to
>>> existence precisely due to the fact that Symbols are not GCed, or was
>>> it the other way around?
>> 
>> I can't speak for Matz but from what I have gathered it was his very
>> conscious design decision to have Symbols not GC'ed.
>> 
>>> Maybe if Symbols' garbage collection wasn't a problem, that rule about
>>> using them just in a limited and fixed amount would have never
>>> existed.
>> 
>> But without this distinction there is really no point in having String
>> AND Symbol any more.  A Symbol then would merely be a String which is
>> frozen by default.  I prefer the current situation because it makes
>> much more sense in my opinion.  With a symbol we denote a fixed
>> identifier which is used in multiple locations of an application and
>> with a String we denote arbitrary text content.
> 
> Makes sense, thanks.
> 
> Jesus.
> 

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