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		inferiorhuman on Nov 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch Ah hah, you've discovered how long it's been since I've thought about Ruby performance. `One important advantage of symbols versus strings is that Symbol#== is constant time.` At that point though why not use integer constants?

knodi123 on Nov 7, 2022 [–]

syntactic sugar- you don't have to pre-declare them or worry about conflicting values. And occasionally the symbol.to_s method is useful in logging or whatnot. That's pretty much it.

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