From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-02T21:57:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory behavior of String#dup

Hi,

In message "Re: Memory behavior of String#dup"
    on 03/07/02, "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> writes:

|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?

Early optimization is the source of all evil. ;-)

Putting joke aside, frozen key string is very useful for finding
bugs.  So I think optimization should be done differently.

							matz.