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by pestaa 4274 days ago
It adds up. One request may produce millions of such strings. Ruby and especially RoR without cheap symbol lookups would be as fast as a dead fish.
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coldtea 4273 days ago
You're not supposed to have "millions of symbols" in Ruby (or LISP for that matter) either.

I mean, you technically could, but it's not what they are used for.

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