From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T12:25:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating GUIs

Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/12/05, Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> wrote:
>> Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>>   player.polygon = player.polygon.collect do |x,y|
>> 
>> How about this?
>> 
>>    player.polygon.collect! do |x,y|
>
> Didn't increase speed at all.

Hmm, okay.

> Is there some Ruby idiom for going through every element in an array
> and destructively changing the values in it?  Using collect! didn't
> seem to help at all.

Well, that *is* how you destructively change each element.

I guess the array consing wasn't your bottleneck.  I'd look at your
algorithm more closely if I weren't so damn tired --- sorry.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>