From: "ko1 (Koichi Sasada) via ruby-core" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2024-07-26T17:04:40+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:118702] [Ruby master Misc#20652] Memory allocation for gsub has increased from Ruby 2.7 to 3.3

Issue #20652 has been updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).


I found an idea that each `ec` points to unescaped MatchData rather than `$~` and reuse it.
In other words, all generate MatchData will be cached by `ec->last_matchdata` (or similar) and use it across scopes.

```ruby
def foo
  if /.../ =~ ... # generate MatchData1
    bar()
  end
end

def bar
  m = $str.match(//) # reuse MatchData1
end
```

It is thread-safe and increases an opportunity to reuse.

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Misc #20652: Memory allocation for gsub has increased from Ruby 2.7 to 3.3
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20652#change-109239

* Author: orisano (Nao Yonashiro)
* Status: Open
* Assignee: jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)
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I recently upgraded from ruby 2.7.7 to 3.3.1 and noticed that the GC load increased.
When I used the allocation profiler to investigate, I found that memory allocation from gsub had increased.

The problem was code like this:
```ruby
s = "foo              "
s.gsub(/ (\s+)/) { " #{'&nbsp;' * Regexp.last_match(1).length}" }
```

When I compared the results of heap-profiler between 2.7.7 and 3.3.1, I found that MatchData was increasing.

https://gist.github.com/orisano/98792dee260106e9b6fcb45bbabeb1e6

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/abc0304cb28cb9dcc3476993bc487884c139fd11

I discovered that the cause is this commit, which stopped reusing backref to avoid race conditions.
Is there a way to reuse backref while still avoiding race conditions?



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