[#58730] [ruby-trunk - misc #9188][Open] r43870 make benchmark/bm_so_k_nucleotide.rb slow — "authorNari (Narihiro Nakamura)" <authorNari@...>

17 messages 2013/12/01

[#58732] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9189][Open] Build failure on Windows in case of nonascii TEMP environment. — "phasis68 (Heesob Park)" <phasis@...>

11 messages 2013/12/01

[#58750] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9190][Open] Expose serial helper macros — "simeonwillbanks (Simeon Willbanks)" <sfw@...>

13 messages 2013/12/01

[#58756] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9192][Open] Inconsistent comparison between Float and BigDecimal — "vatsu (Gustavo Sales)" <vatsu21@...>

18 messages 2013/12/02

[#58797] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9198][Open] Segfault in TestException#test_machine_stackoverflow — "vo.x (Vit Ondruch)" <v.ondruch@...>

11 messages 2013/12/02

[#58833] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9205][Open] Assertion failed: heap_pages_deferred_final == 0 — "phasis68 (Heesob Park)" <phasis@...>

11 messages 2013/12/03

[#58866] [ruby-trunk - misc #9215][Open] Maintenance Policy for Future Releases (2.1.0 & beyond) — "hone (Terence Lee)" <hone02@...>

17 messages 2013/12/05

[#58876] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9221][Open] Time.parse performance becomes exponentially worse as string length grows — "mpelzsherman (Michael Pelz-Sherman)" <mpelzsherman@...>

15 messages 2013/12/05

[#58948] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9226][Open] Getting method `inspect' called on unexpected T_NODE object (0x000000025ddea8 flags=0x109089c klass=0x0) (NotImplementedError) from Hash#inspect — "myronmarston (Myron Marston)" <myron.marston@...>

11 messages 2013/12/07

[#59032] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9239][Open] Array#to_h ignores flat arrays — "sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)" <sawadatsuyoshi@...>

15 messages 2013/12/10

[#59122] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9251][Open] ! operator has lower precedence than = in an assignment expression — "rits (First Last)" <redmine@...>

26 messages 2013/12/15

[#59198] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9262][Open] global_method_cache should be configurable or grow automatically — "tmm1 (Aman Gupta)" <ruby@...1.net>

28 messages 2013/12/19

[#59209] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9264][Open] Compiling error: encdb.bundle Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 — "spastorino (Santiago Pastorino)" <santiago@...>

15 messages 2013/12/19
[#59211] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9264][Feedback] Compiling error: encdb.bundle Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 — "zzak (Zachary Scott)" <e@...> 2013/12/19

[#59212] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #9264][Feedback] Compiling error: encdb.bundle Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 — Santiago Pastorino <spastorino@...> 2013/12/19

zzak, make distclean is the first thing I've ran. Read the gist again :),

[#59213] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #9264][Feedback] Compiling error: encdb.bundle Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 — Zachary Scott <e@...> 2013/12/19

Sorry I missed the gist, can you try building outside of $srcdir?

[#59214] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #9264][Feedback] Compiling error: encdb.bundle Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 — Santiago Pastorino <spastorino@...> 2013/12/19

It works if I do ...

[#59215] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #9264][Feedback] Compiling error: encdb.bundle Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 — Zachary Scott <e@...> 2013/12/19

I've been using the following:

[#59255] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9276][Open] "RUBY_FREE_MIN is obsolete. Use RUBY_GC_HEAP_FREE_SLOTS instead" warning should not be issued when both ENV vars are set. — "myronmarston (Myron Marston)" <myron.marston@...>

10 messages 2013/12/21

[#59260] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9278][Open] Magic comment "immutable: string" makes "literal".freeze the default for that file — "colindkelley (Colin Kelley)" <colin@...>

12 messages 2013/12/22

[#59343] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9309][Open] Crash while running tests — "mdemare (Michiel de MAre)" <merloen@...>

12 messages 2013/12/27

[#59345] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9310][Open] inheritance.rb: 27: [BUG] Segmentation fault at 0x00000c — "jasnow (Al Snow)" <jasnow@...>

10 messages 2013/12/27

[#59349] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9312][Open] Build the ruby executable in bin/ — "postmodern (Hal Brodigan)" <postmodern.mod3@...>

13 messages 2013/12/28

[#59365] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9316][Open] BigDecimal division in Ruby 2.1 — "abernardes (Andre Oliveira)" <abernardes@...>

15 messages 2013/12/28

[#59398] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9321][Open] rb_mod_const_missing does not generate a c-return event — "drkaes (Stefan Kaes)" <stkaes@...>

41 messages 2013/12/30

[#59429] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9330][Open] [PATCH 0/3] avoid redundant fcntl/fstat syscalls for cloexec sockets — "normalperson (Eric Wong)" <normalperson@...>

10 messages 2013/12/31

[ruby-core:58976] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9229] [patch] expose rb_fstring() as String#dedup

From: "phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin)" <matthew@...>
Date: 2013-12-08 21:54:46 UTC
List: ruby-core #58976
Issue #9229 has been updated by phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin).


tmm1 (Aman Gupta) wrote:
> > Would this be better as MRI's implementation of String#freeze ?
> 
> This was discussed in #8992 and I think there was some resistance to #freeze returning a new object.

We could always introduce #freeze! which is guaranteed to return the same object.  Any old code that relies on receiving the same object reference would have to be updated, but I'm okay with that (not that it's up to me.)
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Bug #9229: [patch] expose rb_fstring() as String#dedup
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9229#change-43528

Author: tmm1 (Aman Gupta)
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: 
Target version: current: 2.1.0
ruby -v: trunk
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN


After recent commits, ruby is using the new rb_fstring() API extensively inside the VM to de-duplicate internal strings.
This technique has proven very successful, and reduced the majority of long-lived strings in large applications.

I think we should expose this functionality to ruby as well.

This api would allow gem/library maintainers to de-duplicate strings in any long-lived objects they create.
For example, many gems today contain large constant lookup tables that contain many strings. These tables are often loaded via yaml or json from disk:

  Addressable::IDNA::UNICODE_DATA
  MIME::Types.instance_variable_get(:@__types__)
  TZInfo::Timezone.class_variable_get(:@@loaded_zones)
  ActiveSupport::Multibyte::UCD
  TTFunk::Table::Post::Format10::POSTSCRIPT_GLYPHS
  Money::Currency::TABLE
  Rack::Utils::HTTP_STATUS_CODES

In our app, strings in these tables account for a huge portion of long-lived strings in our runtime.
Another example is strings referenced by long-lived rubygem specifications. From a ObjectSpace.dump_all snapshot:

$ grep '"MIT"' heap.json | wc -l
      73

With the proposed patch, a user (or ideally library maintainer) can easily de-duplicate strings in known long-lived objects:

>> Gem::Specification._all.each{ |s| s.license = s.license.dedup if s.license }.size
=> 304

A simple implementation follows.

diff --git a/string.c b/string.c
index f8dd03d..8294c78 100644
--- a/string.c
+++ b/string.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ fstr_update_callback(st_data_t *key, st_data_t *value, st_data_t arg, int existi
 	return ST_STOP;
     }
 
-    if (STR_SHARED_P(str)) {
+    if (STR_SHARED_P(str) || RBASIC_CLASS(str) != rb_cString) {
 	/* str should not be shared */
 	str = rb_enc_str_new(RSTRING_PTR(str), RSTRING_LEN(str), STR_ENC_GET(str));
 	OBJ_FREEZE(str);
@@ -8278,6 +8278,20 @@ str_scrub_bang(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE str)
     return str;
 }
 
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *   str.dedup -> str
+ *
+ * Returns a frozen version of this string. If possible, an existing
+ * object with the same value will be returned.
+ */
+
+static VALUE
+str_dedup(VALUE self)
+{
+    return rb_fstring(self);
+}
+
 /**********************************************************************
  * Document-class: Symbol
  *
@@ -8768,6 +8782,7 @@ Init_String(void)
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "scrub", str_scrub, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "scrub!", str_scrub_bang, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "freeze", rb_obj_freeze, 0);
+    rb_define_method(rb_cString, "dedup", str_dedup, 0);
 
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "to_i", rb_str_to_i, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "to_f", rb_str_to_f, 0);
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_string.rb b/test/ruby/test_string.rb
index 7ce1c06..d8c414b 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_string.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_string.rb
@@ -600,6 +600,13 @@ class TestString < Test::Unit::TestCase
     end
   end
 
+  def test_dedup
+    fstr = "foobar".freeze
+
+    assert_same fstr, S("foobar").dedup
+    assert_same fstr, S("foobar").dup.dedup
+  end
+
   def test_each
     save = $/
     $/ = "\n"



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