Subject: [ruby-core:21648] symbols able to eat up memory in 1.8
From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:29:09 +0900
Currently in 1.8.7
loop { rand(10000000).to_s.to_sym }
eats up all available memory. 1.9 avoids this by limiting the size of
the symbol table.
Is that worthy of a backport request do you think?
Thanks!
-=r