Comment by jashmatthews

3 days ago

Symbols have been GCed since CRuby 2.2 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9634

Well thats great, guess I have carried that baggage with me as misinformation for years now.

  • One 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.

  • Same here. Turns out writing too much code for RPG Maker XP when young ruins one’s perception of Ruby forever