[#97678] [Ruby master Feature#16752] :private param for const_set — bughitgithub@...
Issue #16752 has been reported by bughit (bug hit).
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2020/04/02
[ruby-core:98088] [Ruby master Feature#16150] Add a way to request a frozen string from to_s
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Date:
2020-04-29 23:24:38 UTC
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ruby-core #98088
Issue #16150 has been updated by sam.saffron (Sam Saffron). I can confirm that Discourse bench and Discourse works with symbol-fstring today. Old versions of pry were broken, but stuff seems fine now. ---------------------------------------- Feature #16150: Add a way to request a frozen string from to_s https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16150#change-85323 * Author: headius (Charles Nutter) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- Much of the time when a user calls to_s, they are just looking for a simple string representation to display or to interpolate into another string. In my brief exploration, the result of to_s is rarely mutated directly. It seems that we could save a lot of objects by providing a way to explicitly request a *frozen* string. For purposes of discussion I will call this to_frozen_string, which is a terrible name. This would reduce string allocations dramatically when applied to many common to_s calls: * Symbol#to_frozen_string could always return the same cached String representation. This method is *heavily* used by almost all Ruby code that intermingles Symbols and Strings. * nil, true, false, and any other singleton values in the system could similarly cache and return the same String object. * The strings coming from core types could also be in the fstring cache and deduplicated as a result. * User-provided to_s implementations could opt-in to caching and returning the same frozen String object when the author knows that the result will always be the same. A few ideas for what to call this: * `to_fstring` or `fstring` reflects internal the "fstring" cache but is perhaps not obvious for most users. * `to_s(frozen: true)` is clean but there will be many cases when the kwargs hash doesn't get eliminated, making matters worse. * `def to_s(frozen = false)` would be mostly free but may not be compatible with existing to_s params (like `Integer#to_s(radix)` This idea was inspired by @schneems's talk at RubyConf Thailand, where he showed significant overhead in ActiveRecord from Symbol#to_s allocation. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>