From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T06:34:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby optimization - re-implement in compiled language?

On Monday 04 April 2005 09:29 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
> "Randy Kramer" <rhkramer@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > So, you really can't tell which of those parts is the biggest
> > contributor to the (presumed) problem?

---<good stuff snipped>---

> Then if you iterate only once through any Enumerable then #each shows up
> as 1 call - which can be confusing.  But it's completely logical since
> it's actually called only once.  Just the block is invoked multiple times.
> So, assuming that you have a lot of stuff going on in a block, that time
> can be seen nowhere else than within the time of #each - there's no extra
> marker for the block.  Of course you'll see times of methods that are
> called from the block on rows of their own.

Thanks! (I may need to read this and run the profiler a fewtimes to really 
absorb this, but I think I have the gist of it.)

regards,
Randy Kramer