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Jim Lindley

Jim Lindley

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Saturday, August 09 2008
564 dangerous float operations was updated in Ruby on Rails
756 Nested fields_for doesn't work when passed name of field was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Jim Lindley
    Jim Lindley commented at 9:55 PM

    Glenn,

    This is currently expected although of course frustrating. Some work is being done in edge to alleviate this issue.

    There is a discussion going on in r...
785 Caching models fails in development was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Jim Lindley
    Jim Lindley commented at 9:26 PM

    Maybe dup objects before storing them, and then dup them on retrieval and return the copies to prevent tainting the cache?

    Dup is even faster then marshal.
  • Jim Lindley
    Jim Lindley commented at 5:55 PM

    Yeah, about an order of magnitude.
  • Jim Lindley
    Jim Lindley commented at 5:27 PM

    Oh wait, my math was based off reloading strings. It's worse then I thought in my previous comment, sorry.
  • Jim Lindley
    Jim Lindley commented at 5:25 PM

    Some quick and dirty micro-benchmarking: http://gist.github.com/4683

    Basically, marshaling is 20x slower to save and 100x slower to load.

    However, Marshalling...