There's Plethora of Ruby.newString(java.lang.String) uses which end up 
try/catch block in Bytelist.plain that can slow down the path by a good 
30%-50% over plain getBytes(). It that still needed ?
(not to mention uses like newString("[") an so on). And they're not 
paths that are only used for inspection (though, I can realize an app 
that uses (Array, Object, whatever)#inspect and similar heavily)

Marcin

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