From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-12-28T23:06:47+09:00
Subject: Re: help on making ruby code faster


"David Garamond" <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:41D1623C.7090909@zara.6.isreserved.com...
> 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? :-)

.... or I introduced another slow operation that evens out the effect of
the saved creations...

> > 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).

Does freezing the array make a difference?  Nah, probably not...

    robert