Method: BasicObject#__id__

Defined in:
gc.c

#__id__ ⇒ Object

call-seq:

obj.__id__       -> integer
obj.object_id    -> integer

Returns an integer identifier for obj.

The same number will be returned on all calls to object_id for a given object, and no two active objects will share an id.

Note: that some objects of builtin classes are reused for optimization. This is the case for immediate values and frozen string literals.

BasicObject implements __id__, Kernel implements object_id.

Immediate values are not passed by reference but are passed by value: nil, true, false, Fixnums, Symbols, and some Floats.

Object.new.object_id  == Object.new.object_id  # => false
(21 * 2).object_id    == (21 * 2).object_id    # => true
"hello".object_id     == "hello".object_id     # => false
"hi".freeze.object_id == "hi".freeze.object_id # => true
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# File 'gc.c', line 1898

VALUE
rb_obj_id(VALUE obj)
{
    /* If obj is an immediate, the object ID is obj directly converted to a Numeric.
     * Otherwise, the object ID is a Numeric that is a non-zero multiple of
     * (RUBY_IMMEDIATE_MASK + 1) which guarantees that it does not collide with
     * any immediates. */
    return rb_find_object_id(rb_gc_get_objspace(), obj, rb_gc_impl_object_id);
}