Interning Strings for a 10x speedup | C++ | Compiler Hacking

Turning strings into a unique internal representation can certainly improve performance when the same string representation is used over and over. Let's do it!

About the Project: Natalie is a very early-stage work-in-progress Ruby implementation that compiles Ruby to an executable. It does so by transpiling Ruby to C++ and feeding it to gcc or clang to produce a binary.

GitHub: https://github.com/seven1m/natalie Twitter: https://twitter.com/timmrgn

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