From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T01:36:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Benchmark for Ruby

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On 9/15/06, Srinivas JONNALAGADDA <srinivas.j@siritech.com> wrote:
>
>      x = case :asdf
>         when :a
>           'a'


You have a literal Symbol in the case statement. Try it with a variable that
refers to an object of type Symbol. I got nearly a three percent speed
improvement by changing this out, and it was only over a few hundred
thousand iterations, not ten million. I haven't looked at the implementation
(yet) so I have no clue why this behaves as it does.

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