From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-12T01:47:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Help me understand why the Ruby block is slower than wit

On Mar 11, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Alan Burch wrote:

> James Gray wrote:
>> On Mar 10, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Alan Burch wrote:
>>
>>> I first saw
>>> that the array class mixed in enumerable and that I could use the  
>>> to_a
>>> call from there, but a quick check using -r profile showed that my
>>> original call to split was a much quicker way to convert from a  
>>> string
>>> to an array.
>>
>> This sounds like premature optimization.  Remember, you start
>> worrying about speed when the code gets too slow.  Not before.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> James:
> I'm going to have to respectfully disagree.

Well, I'm pretty darn sure you are in the minority on that one:  ;)

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22premature+optimization%22

James Edward Gray II