Codegen: don't use init flag for string constants #9808
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Also includes a small refacor.
For example if you have code like this:
Then before this PR when reading
FOO
we would check whether it was initialized or not. This is not needed before a string literal doesn't need a special initialization, it's just data.Like with #9801, it's not common to find code like the above but it is common that this happens because of order of
require
and the way the compiler works.Benchmark (
Int#to_s
uses some constants that are string literals):Before:
After: