# Symbols are more faster than variables

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbols-are-more-faster-than-variables/140756>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 18, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbols-are-more-faster-than-variables/140756 "2008-06-18T09:28:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sunfish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sunfish)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbols-are-more-faster-than-variables/140756/1 "2008-06-18T09:28:27Z")

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symbols are more faster than variables why?  
need explanation

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**Author:** ![sunfish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sunfish)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbols-are-more-faster-than-variables/140756/2 "2008-06-18T09:42:00Z")

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On Jun 18, 8:28 am, Sunny B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> symbols are more faster than variables why?  
> need explanation

I don’t think what you’ve said makes any sense. That said, Josh S.  
wrote some nice stuff about symbols at  
[http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2008/4/19/symbols-are-not-pretty-strings](http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2008/4/19/symbols-are-not-pretty-strings)

Fred