From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-06-03T06:43:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Interesting discovery...

Jim Freeze wrote:
> * Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> [2005-06-03 04:43:52 +0900]:
> 
> 
>>Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>>
>>> rescue_test  2.940000   0.320000   3.260000 (  3.264758)
>>> respond_to_test  0.160000   0.050000   0.210000 (  0.208268)
>>>
>>>
>>>looks like respond_to? is indeed faster.
>>
>>But if the method *is* defined, rescue is faster:
> 
> 
> I'm not sure I understand. If the method exists, what is the
> need for rescue to be called?

I was unclear: I was hypothesizing a different test, in which a certain 
proportion of the objects had the method and the rest did not. It might 
be interesting to determine what ratio is the break-even point...