From: khaines@...
Date: 2007-12-30T01:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: multibyte strings & bucket-of-bytes efficiency under 1.9.0

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, David Flanagan wrote:

> I would expect the speed to go back up if you call force_encoding(nil) on the 
> string before calling slice! That allows you to treat it as unencoded bytes.
>
> Only do this, though if you can be confident that you won't slice any 
> multi-byte characters down the middle, since that would leave you with 
> corrupt data.

It's still slower than a seven year itch when I do that.  It's really 
quite an impressive difference in performance between 1.8 and 1.9, and not 
in a warm fuzzy way.


Kirk Haines