From: yoshiokatsuneo@...
Date: 2017-02-18T14:37:04+00:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:49984] [Ruby trunk Bug#13228] s[i]=c(assigning a character) for String is slower than Array on Linux

Issue #13228 has been reported by Tsuneo Yoshioka.

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Bug #13228: s[i]=c(assigning a character) for String is slower than Array on Linux
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13228

* Author: Tsuneo Yoshioka
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN
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s[i]=c(assigning a character) for String is slower than for Array on Linux.

If I split the String to Array, and assign characters, and join the Array to String,
then it is much faster than assigning characters directly to the string.

Somehow, I don't see the performance difference on Mac OS X.

~$ time ruby -e 'N=100000; s="a"*N; N.times{s[Random.rand(N)]="Z"}; puts s' >/dev/null

real    0m0.879s
user    0m0.836s
sys     0m0.012s
~$ time ruby -e 'N=100000;s="a"*N;s=s.split(""); N.times{s[Random.rand(N)]="Z"}; puts s.join("")' >/dev/null

real    0m0.153s
user    0m0.108s
sys     0m0.016s

~$ uname -a
Linux aaaaaaaa 4.4.0-43-generic #63-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 12 13:48:03 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
~$ ruby --version
ruby 2.4.0p0 (2016-12-24 revision 57164) [x86_64-linux]
~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial




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