From: Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
Date: 2005-08-31T00:31:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

--- Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Twice as slow:
> 
> CURRENT
>                      user     system      total        real
> normal          :  0.040000   0.010000   0.050000 ( 
> 0.102307)
> send_symbol     :  0.050000   0.010000   0.060000 ( 
> 0.110930)
> send_string     :  0.080000   0.010000   0.090000 ( 
> 0.134324)
> bind            :  0.090000   0.020000   0.110000 ( 
> 0.168328)
> instance_eval   :  0.120000   0.020000   0.140000 ( 
> 0.186177)
> inst_eval_send* :  0.120000   0.020000   0.140000 ( 
> 0.207331)
> by_eval         :  0.270000   0.020000   0.290000 ( 
> 0.342002)

That's one of my reasons for using send over instance_eval. 
Using instance_eval will put at least one more call level on
the stack (for the block).


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