From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T02:28:27+09:00
Subject: Re: String#chop slow? REALLY slow?


On Jul 27, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Caleb Clausen wrote:

> 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.
>

You're totally right!  [0..-1] is the same string.  Thanks for the  
catch.  I'm surprised it took that long.

Thanks for all the advice, everyone.  Sorry to be a little brain-dead.
-Mat