From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T01:29:19+09:00
Subject: Re: String#chop slow?  REALLY slow?


On Jul 27, 2006, at 12:20 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> on my node:
>
> harp:~ > ruby a.rb
> Rehearsal --------------------------------------------
> Indexing   0.150000   0.000000   0.150000 (  0.145923)
> Chop       4.210000  16.200000  20.410000 ( 20.910127)
> Chop2      4.210000   0.220000   4.430000 (  4.536517)
> ---------------------------------- total: 24.990000sec
>
>                user     system      total        real
> Indexing   0.140000   0.000000   0.140000 (  0.142257)
> Chop       0.110000   0.000000   0.110000 (  0.104612)
> Chop2      0.150000   0.000000   0.150000 (  0.152083)

Now that's interesting.  I wonder why the rehearsal and the real run  
are so different....