From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2004-11-07T11:43:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is a slow performer

Christian Szegedy wrote:
> And the result is roughly the same.
> Let's try the functionally equivalent:
> hash[i.to_s] = 1
>

Just a side remark: one can use

i.to_s(16)

and it is about as fast as the unformatted
decimal conversion and it is equivalant to
the original specification.