Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16751] Re: Symbols, and their use as hash keys"
    on 01/06/22, "Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov" <xm / w3d.ru> writes:

|> Symbols are immediate numbers.  We can compare them in one machine
|> operation, instead of byte by byte comparison like strings.
|Hehe ... I know this already ... but why they are _slower_ ?

because "intern" is not free, I think.  You called intern 10000 times
once for each symbol.

							matz.