From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-05-15T04:37:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [C ext] Why so many methods rb_hash_xxxxx are not public?


On May 14, 2012, at 08:11 , Iņaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> Hi, is there any special reason for having most of the rb_hash_xxxx
> methods not public? For example, I want to empty a Ruby hash from C
> code, so I expected to use rb_hash_clear(VALUE hash), but... it's
> declared as static!!!
> 
> So why??? what is the "workaround"?

rb_funcall. I highly doubt that calling rb_hash_clear is your bottleneck.