From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-07-02T20:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory behavior of String#dup


"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1056982404.612203.27747.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp...
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Memory behavior of String#dup"
>     on 03/06/30, "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> writes:
>
> |Though I still worry about the overhead of one more ruby instance
(there
> |must be some bookkeeping done etc.).  Is this neglectible?
>
> I guess so.  It's only 20 bytes per object on 32 bit CPU.

Hm, that amounts to 2 million bytes for 100000 instances - which is not to
much IMHO.  Plus, there will be some overheads for object lookups I guess.

I'd like to propose the change to not dup frozen strings as Hash keys.
Should I enter an RCR?  Do we discuss this here?

Regards

    robert