From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-23T00:06:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20111] Re: Hash test performance issue

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20096] Re: Hash test performance issue"
    on 01/08/22, Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@umu.se> writes:

|> Why is
|> 	foo = (bar == @bigHumonguosHash) : apple ? orange
|> 
|> Soooo much slower than (almost 100%)
|> 
|> 	foo = (bar.id == @bigHumongousHash.id) : apple ? orange
|
|Because == compares the values, not the references, i.e., 

Yes, but I should have done equality check first (no value check
needed for identical hash).  I will update.

							matz.