From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T19:57:56+09:00
Subject: Re: strange speeds

kryglik <kryglik@iol.cz> wrote:
> Hello ruby people,
>  I've tried to make some speed test in ruby to find out how fast is
> searching in hash (using has_key?)
>
> The results were OK but I discovered curious thing -- when i generate
> big hash the speed is different when i unserialize (marshal.load) the
> same hash.
>
> Unserialized Hash is 1.5x faster in has_key? method. Tried it with
> GC.disable as well, results were same.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanx for any ideas

The first reason that comes to mind is different insertion order. But I 
hardly believe it could make such a big difference.  Care to post your 
testing code?

Kind regards

    robert