From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-05-24T15:23:45+09:00
Subject: Re: make faster Richards benchmark

In article <6748553f.0405232121.1ec69094@posting.google.com>,
Duncan Lissett <dlissett0@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to make a faster Ruby
>implementation of Richards benchmark. Perhaps there are obvious
>problems that can be corrected?
>
>http://www.lissett.com/ben/bench1.htm


Have you tried the profiler on this code?

put 'require 'profile' at the top of the code.

This seems to be a fairly involved benchmark, so profiling it should help 
to narrow down which parts of the code to concentrate your optimization 
efforts on.

Check out the "When Trouble Strikes" chapter of the Programming Ruby book 
(especially 'But it's too slow') online here:

http://phrogz.net/programmingruby/

Phil