From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T07:47:15+09:00
Subject: Re: break from block

On 20/10/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20.10.2006 16:37, Farrel Lifson wrote:
> > I'm just trying to optimise some code and I was wondering if doing
> >  block = lambda{|i| #processing; if i > 5; break}
> >  n.times &block
> > would be any faster than doing it directly.
>
> I do not know a single case where the lambda variant is faster than the
> direct block variant.  AFAIK that's because of the conversion that
> occurs.  The advantage of the lambda variant is rather that you can
> store the block away and reuse it multiple times.
>
> Regards
>
>         robert

From my informal benchmarking there's a very slight constant speedup
of about 1s for my program.

Farrel