On Apr 25, 3:52 ¨Âí¬ ÃèáòìåÏìéöåò Îõôôåò ¼èåáä®®®Àèåáäéõó®ãïí÷òïôåº
> I think you're going to be SOL expecting these values to always match
> up across implementations. They are fortunately the same or similar in
> C Ruby versions because C Ruby uses the pointer address of the object
> for that hex number. On implementations where objects can move in
> memory, that value is almost always going to be calculated and
> potentially not even unique.
>
> In JRuby, the inspect value is based on the "identity hashcode" of the
> object, which is the default hashcode value the object would have it
> if did not override and provide its own hashcode. It is not guaranteed
> to be unique. Because of that, JRuby uses a strictly-increasing
> counter for object_id's as they are requested, and so object_id is
> entirely unrelated to the inspect hash string.
>
> I suspect other implementations with relocating objects will have
> similar limitations on the uniqueness and equivalence of these various
> values.
>
> If you really want a unique hexid you can use for a given object,
> calculate it and stuff it into the object when it's first requested:
>
> class Object
> def hexid
> # not thread-safe, but wasting an ID isn't a big deal
> @hexid ||= Object.calculate_hexid
> @hexid.to_s(16)
> end
>
> def self.calculate_hexid
> # appropriate mutexing should surround this
> @next_hexid += 1
> end
> end
>
> Or on an impl like JRuby, where object_id is guaranteed not to produce
> a duplicate value (or at least, not up to 2^64 object_id's), just use
> object_id directly.
>
>
>
> >> Is it important that object_hexid returns the same value as reported by
> >> #inspect, or just some unique id?
>
> > Yes.
>
> I guarantee this won't ever work in JRuby and may not work on anything
> but C Ruby. I think you're asking too much of that inspect value.
>
> Can you describe *why* you need this behavior?

I don't expect the values to match up across implementations, I just
want a reliable way to get a value for a given implementation. My only
need is to emulate #inspect when I am customizing it. E.g.

  class MyHash << Hash
    def inspect
      "#<#{self.class}:#{object_hexid} #{super}>"
    end
  end

So, again, there's no need for it to match across implementations. I
just need a method that will return whatever value the implementation
is using.