From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-12-10T00:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] Crosswords (#10)

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:47:09 +0900
James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2004, at 8:55 AM, Brian Schr�der wrote:
> 
> > Hello James,
> >
> > Nice summary, thanks you again. Did you benchmark the solutions, I 
> > would be
> > interested in how fast/slow some approaches where. Especially those 
> > that rely
> > heavily on string manipulation, vs. those that build up the layout in a
> > streaming fashion.
> 
> I didn't benchmark this time no.  Everything I ran was "faster than I 
> blink" zippy.  ;)
> 

Well, you're right. I can't imagine anybody wants to solve a crossword of the
size whose layout would take noteworthy time to calculate. I only got the
feeling that all this transpose, gsub, etc... stuff should take a lot of time.
On the other hand ruby performance is nearly always different from what I
expect.

Regards,

Brian

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Brian Schr�der
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