From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T06:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

Quoting hutch@recursive.ca, on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:36:28AM +0900:
> Don't forget that string comparison is pretty quick if the strings  
> differ in the first character. If you try comparing to the same  
> string and make the string a lot longer (say 2000 characters) you'll  
> get a situation where symbol comparisons are about three times faster  
> than string comparisons.

But the strings in my app are short, about 20 chars.

> Have you tried profiling your code?

Yes, performance was dominated by string comparisons, I wrote the
benchmark to see if changing to symbols would help.

Sam