From: "Weirich, James" <James.Weirich@...>
Date: 2004-01-15T01:10:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting a string to an array of tokens

> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net] 
> > In current Ruby, are the strings shared with COW semantics, or was
> > Nobu just speculating on possible implementations?
> 
> It has been implemented.

Indeed.  A quick little test shows that the time to execute ...

   While s
     s = s[1..-1]
   end

Is linear w.r.t. string length.  Excellent.  I hadn't realized this before.

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