From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-07-03T07:13:10+09:00
Subject: Re: slow method searching?

Dave Thomas 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?

Note that I'm comparing these two:

  $ time ruby -e'a=(1..200000).to_a; a.classx';        # slow
  $ time ruby -e'a=(1..200000).to_a; b=nil; b.classx'; # fast

Also I've tried this in irb and after constructing the array, each 
subsequent call to a.classx or a.foo (any other unknown methods) are 
very slow, even repeatedly. So probably the problem is not in method 
caching, but somehow ruby iterates or checks each element in the array?

Btw, this is ruby 1.8.1 (2004-04-30) [i686-linux-gnu]

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dave