From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T02:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: String#chop slow? REALLY slow?

On 7/27/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just did a quick benchmark to prove something to myself.  But I'd
> like to get a sanity check from the people on the list.
[snip]
> Benchmark.bmbm do |bench|
>    bench.report("Indexing") {
>      n.times do
>        bigstring[0..-1]
>      end
>    }
[snip]

No-one seems to have noticed the typo....? I think that 4th line should be:

  bigstring[0..-2]

Which is slower. That should account for part of the performance gap.