From: Wybo Dekker <wybo@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T01:10:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Jul 15, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Ruby Quiz wrote:
> 
> > Now for all the algorithm junkies out there that enjoy a little friendly
> > competition, here's the time to beat:
> > 
> > $ time ./sample 5_000_000 1_000_000_000 > big_sample.txt
> > 
> > real    30m10.593s
> > user    29m54.544s
> > sys     0m4.736s
> 


$ time ruby -e '5_000_000.times do puts rand(1_000_000_000) end' >big_sample.txt
  elap 16.612 
  user 16.421 
  syst 0.177
  CPU 99.91%

$ wc big_sample.txt 
 5000000  5000000 49446636 big_sample.txt

or do I miss something??
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Wybo