From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2017-04-18T20:32:06+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:80776] Re: [Ruby trunk Feature#13434] better method definition in C API

Also, this is a bit far off; but a potential future optimization
is even being able to use readonly markers in C methods to
infer readonly args use in pure Ruby methods.

For example, Rack::Request is:

	def get_header(name)
	  @env[name]
	end

where @env is a Hash.  Since rb_hash_aref can be marked with the
key being read-only, the end goal is to make even pure Ruby method
calls like:

	get_header("HTTP_FOO")

avoid allocation, just as current calls to @env["HTTP_FOO"] get
optimized with opt_aref_with.  And we should do this without
introducing any incompatibility.

Again, I am 100% against making frozen_string_literal the
default because it introduces backwards incompatibility.

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