From a2e025a7d05047a75c749f64ea7819a4540bb3d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: normal Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 12:28:09 +0000 Subject: introduce rb_autoload_str to replace rb_autoload rb_autoload_str may be safer by preventing premature GC. It can also be more efficient by passing a pre-frozen string that can be deduped using rb_fstring. Common autoload callers (e.g. rubygems, rdoc) already use string literals as the file argument. There seems to be no reason to expose rb_autoload_str to the public C API since autoload is not performance-critical. Applications may declare autoloads in Ruby code or via rb_funcall; so merely deprecate rb_autoload without exposing rb_autoload_str to new users. Running: valgrind -v ruby -rrdoc -rubygems -e exit shows a minor memory reduction (32-bit userspace) before: in use at exit: 1,600,621 bytes in 28,819 blocks total heap usage: 55,786 allocs, 26,967 frees, 6,693,790 bytes allocated after: in use at exit: 1,599,778 bytes in 28,789 blocks total heap usage: 55,739 allocs, 26,950 frees, 6,692,973 bytes allocated * include/ruby/intern.h (rb_autoload): deprecate * internal.h (rb_autoload_str): declare * load.c (rb_mod_autoload): use rb_autoload_str * variable.c (rb_autoload): become compatibility wrapper (rb_autoload_str): hoisted out from old rb_autoload [ruby-core:71369] [Feature #11664] git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@52909 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- NEWS | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 88cbefc08b..3b4d66b6fd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file. * rb_time_timespec_new() is added to create a time object with epoch, nanosecond, and UTC/localtime/time offset arguments. [Feature #11558] +* rb_autoload() deprecated, use rb_funcall() instead. [Feature #11664] + === Build system updates === Implementation changes -- cgit v1.2.3