From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-02-19T10:30:39+09:00
Subject: Re: metakoans.rb (#67)

On 2/18/06, Timothy Goddard <interfecus@gmail.com> wrote:
> To take the focus off number of lines, let's take a look at bechmarks.
> This was my benchmark script:
>
> Benchmark::bm(12) do |x|
>   x.report('attr') {100000.times {c = Class.new {attr :foo, :bar}}}
>   x.report('attribute') {100000.times {c = Class.new {attribute :foo,
> :bar}}}
> end
>
> And my results were:
>
>                   user     system      total        real
> attr          3.720000   0.000000   3.720000 (  3.724316)
> attribute    25.750000   0.000000  25.750000 ( 25.790665)
>
> It isn't that efficient, but I'd like to see how it compares.
>

That's interesting. I didn't expect the difference to be quite this
big.  attr is impressively fast.
                  user     system      total        real
attr          7.250000   0.000000   7.250000 (  7.250000)
attribute    30.110000   0.000000  30.110000 ( 30.172000)

I'm looking forward to seeing some of the other solutions, for sure. 
I had my hands halfway around a faster way, but couldn't quite make it
work.