From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-12-28T22:39:41+09:00
Subject: Re: help on making ruby code faster

Robert Klemme wrote:
> The general rule is that object creation is quite expensive.  So it's
> always good to try to avoid it if possible.

I applied your suggestions below and it got slightly worse. So I guess 
object creation has been pretty optimized in Ruby? :-)

> You can save the downcase if you add values for lower and upper case
> characters to @@rd36 (if it's an array, maybe make it a hash).

I do get slightly better performance by making @@rd36 an array instead 
of a hash (originally it's a hash).

Regards,
dave