From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2004-12-28T21:46:48+09:00
Subject: Re: help on making ruby code faster

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:41:57 +0900,
David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> wrote:
> Benchmark.measure shows that, on my box, I can do around 2000-2500 of 
> roundtrip conversions per second, which is not too bad. But I wonder if 
> it can be made more efficient. The Ruby profiler shows the top 4 methods:

I'm not sure on the effects it will have, but try extracting
the constants from your often-called methods. You're repeatedly
creating "the same objects" which might slow you down due to
unnecessary garbage collection.

s.