From: "Mauricio Fernández" <mfp@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T19:34:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:42:12AM +0900, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> Heres my final solutions time. again on a 1.6Ghz G5. I got the code  
> down to 7 lines and I don't think I can get it any faster.
> 
> ezra:~/Sites/______raill_stuff ez$ time ./sample.rb 5_000_000  
> 1_000_000_000 >  big_sample.txt
> 
> real    0m31.023s
> user    0m29.406s
> sys     0m0.857s

Let the cheating begin:

batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ time ruby ./sample2.rb 5_000_000 1000_000_000 > big_sample.txt

real    0m2.637s
user    0m2.370s
sys     0m0.270s
batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ wc big_sample.txt
 5000000  5000000 49444494 big_sample.txt
batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ tail big_sample.txt
999998676
999998939
999998953
999999212
999999272
999999344
999999665
999999724
999999908
999999982
batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ head big_sample.txt
184
271
649
900
930
1266
1277
1370
1620
1842

-- 
Mauricio Fernandez