From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T09:03:46+09:00
Subject: why does it take so long?


time ruby -e '(3**40000)'
user    0m0.200s

time ruby -e '(3**40000).zz'
-e:1: undefined method `zz' for #<Bignum:0x804c3a8> (NoMethodError)
user    0m1.610s

this is quite strange. any explanations?

a hint may be:

time ruby -e '(3**40000).to_s'
user    0m1.600s

but then, if raising an exception calls to_s on that, the result of it is
certainly not used (it's 19085 digits)

ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-31) [i686-linux]

(the problems are similar with 1.6.7, the other version i happen to have
installed)

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Mathieu Bouchard                       http://artengine.ca/matju