From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-07-03T07:09:13+09:00
Subject: Re: slow method searching?

Dave,

The arrays are being built in both cases; the question is why it takes
to long to determine that a method is missing on a large array. It's
also not just lazy construction of the arrays or anything, as methods
that *do* exist execute as quickly on large arrays as on empty ones.

Lennon

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 07:01:37 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jul 2, 2004, at 16:56, David Garamond wrote:
> 
> > Why does it take longer and longer for Ruby to throw NoMethodError for
> > large arrays? What is going on here? This happens with hash too.
> 
> Perhaps the time is being spent constructing the arrays?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> 
>