From: Maarten Boonen <m44rt3n@...>
Date: 2005-01-22T04:20:57+09:00
Subject: disabling method caching

Hi,

I am trying to compare a few algorithms, but there's a rather 
substantial difference in speed when I run a program like following 5 
times,

start = Time.now
   algo(params)
puts Time.now - start

or when I do

5.times do
   start = Time.now
     algo(params)
   puts Time.now - start
end

(especially if I already called algo() previously, with different 
parameters)

I suspect this has to do with method caching. Is this correct? If so, is 
there a way to disable it? Or are there better ways of comparing?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Maarten