From: sawadatsuyoshi@...
Date: 2019-02-06T15:06:19+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:91436] [Ruby trunk Bug#15589] `Numeric#zero?` is much	slower than `== 0`

Issue #15589 has been updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada).


I would like to thank mame for introducing the history. I am not too crazy about using `zero?` or `nonzero?`, especially after reading about the history. I now understand that there might be less motivation for these methods today. But it just does not make much sense to have such method that is slower than what it is shorthand for. So I think there are two ways to go. One: Acknowledge that there are uses for these methods, and optimize them, or Two: Make them obsolete, in which case the original use cases should use `= 0`.

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Bug #15589: `Numeric#zero?` is much slower than `== 0`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15589#change-76695

* Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: k0kubun (Takashi Kokubun)
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.6.1
* Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
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My understanding is that the predicate method `Numeric#zero?` is not only a shorthand for `== 0`, but is also optimized for frequent patterns. If `zero?` is not faster than `== 0`, then it loses its reason for existence.

However, According to benchmarks on my environment, `number.zero?` is around 1.23 times to 1.64 times slower than `number == 0` when `number` is an `Integer`, `Rational`, or `Complex`. It is faster only when `number` is a `Float`.

And with `number.nonzero?`, it is even worse. It is about 1.88 times to 4.35 times slower than `number != 0`.

I think there is something wrong with this, and it should be possible to optimize these methods, which has somehow been missed.



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