What Does the Frozen String Literal Comment Do in Ruby?

15-Mar-2024 1741
Frozen strings not only prevent unintended modifications, but also reduce the overhead of the garbage collector by eliminating unnecessary memory allocations, thus improving application performance. This post explains the concept of freezing along with the magic comment frozen_string_literal.

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