How Periodic_flush common setting helpful in ruby logstash filter?

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I added periodic_flush => true in ruby filter but I didn't found any difference.

ruby {
   path => <ruby file path>
   periodic_flush => true
}
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The periodic_flush option is defined in the base filter class which every filter inherits, so the option can be set on any filter, but has no effect on most of them.