From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T12:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:51:27AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:38 AM, jason r tibbetts wrote:
> 
> >James,
> >
> >What are your machine's specs, just for comparison's sake? I don't  
> >want to get too discouraged by my 5+ year-old Sun beater  
> >workstation. :)
> 
> Dual 2.0 Ghx G5.  2 Gigs of RAM.
> 
> >I've also found that the printing of the results (in the form of an  
> >array) is taking several minutes in and of itself. Since optimizing  
> >the printout probably isn't the point of the quiz, can anyone  
> >recommend something faster than arr.each{ | elem | p elem }
> 
> IO is certainty a part of this quiz.  The benchmark library is your  
> friend...  ;)

One of the interesting findings for me was that

    puts array_of_strings

is *very* much faster than

    puts array_of_integers

Joost.