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I’ll just kill the comment. It said Symbol isn’t garbage collected. It has been since 2.2 and I wasn’t aware. Sorry. Good reminder that anyone can go on the in
by corytheboyd 1y ago
I’ll just kill the comment. It said Symbol isn’t garbage collected. It has been since 2.2 and I wasn’t aware. Sorry.
Good reminder that anyone can go on the internet, just say stuff, and be wrong.
- jashmatthews 1y agoSymbols have been GCed since CRuby 2.2 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9634 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9634
- corytheboyd 1y agoWell thats great, guess I have carried that baggage with me as misinformation for years now.
- hinkley 1y agoOne of the things I’ve said I would do and never did is create a set of test suites for as many facts about a language as I know and then run it for every new release to see what I need to unlearn. Most but not all of these were performance related. If it took a few days to run that’s fine. Major versions don’t come out that often.
- runeblaze 1y agoSame here. Turns out writing too much code for RPG Maker XP when young ruins one’s perception of Ruby forever
- zht 1y agodynamically created symbols have been garbage collected for almost 10 years
- corytheboyd 1y agoYeah I am a moron. Updated.
- typeofhuman 1y agoNo. A moron would refuse to learn. You are open minded and humble.
- corytheboyd 1y agoThank you stranger <3