From: Randy Kramer Date: 2006-03-13T04:11:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Help me understand why the Ruby block is slower than wit On Sunday 12 March 2006 08:44 am, dblack@wobblini.net wrote: > This isn't an argument in favor of premature optimization; rather, I'm > suggesting that having and using some rough-cut knowledge of execution > speed (as between, say, split and unpack, or something like that) > isn't premature :-) Nor is it optimization; it's really melioration. Thank you! Randy Kramer