From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-09-26T05:00:17+09:00
Subject: Re: "" vs ''

James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:

> On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Rich Morin wrote:
>
>> Use '' by default:
>>
>>   -  It's less work for the interpreter.
>
> What makes you say this?
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
>
> require "benchmark"
>
> TESTS = 1_000_000
> Benchmark.bmbm(10) do |results|
>   results.report("double:") { TESTS.times { "James" } }
>   results.report("single:") { TESTS.times { 'James' } }
> end

You really should compare the parse-trees of these before even trying
to benchmark it that way...

> James Edward Gray II
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