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<br><div><div>On Sep 26, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Evan Weaver wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">As far as I can tell, sym_tbl is just a regular st_table, so it's an</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">expanding array similar to the Ruby heap.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p></blockquote><br></div><div>Oddly enough, this:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>c = 0</div><div>loop { c += 1; puts "two_symbols_sitting_in_a_tree_#{c}".to_sym }</div><div>was a total crasher on 1.8.5 but works on 1.8.6 p110. Don't have time to build 1.8.5. again and check, unfortunately.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>But as people say that symbol table is not even GCed I would avoid converting people's input into symbols anyway.</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-- </div><div>Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov</div><div>please send all personal mail to <a href="mailto:me@julik.nl">me@julik.nl</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>