From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T05:17:50+09:00
Subject: Re: New magical version of Symbol.to_proc

On 10/1/06, Dr Nic <drnicwilliams@gmail.com> wrote:
> Re: performance overhead - I'm not sure if the standard map+block is
> more or less efficient than a for-loop, but I use it anyway because my
> code is much more readable and writable. If I later discovered that I
> had a performance bottleneck near my map+blocks, then I could refactor
> them for speed.

The JRuby code started out as a port of the C Ruby code, and for us a
'for' is just an 'each' over a range...so it's probably about the
same, performance-wise.

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