This cheerfully reminded me of the thing in MRI Ruby of (relatively recent) yesteryear where strings longer than 23 characters were twice as slow, qv. http://pa

This cheerfully reminded me of the thing in MRI Ruby of (relatively recent) yesteryear where strings longer than 23 characters were twice as slow, qv. http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/1/4/never-create-ruby-strings-longer-than-23-characters http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/1/4/never-create-ruby-strings...