From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-03-03T03:21:45+09:00
Subject: Re: default passed block for method

Just for giggles, I combined Robert and Joel's benchmarks and ran them
on both ruby 1.8 and a quite recent 1.9.  Perhaps the results are of
interest.

rick@frodo:/public/rubyscripts$ ruby1.8 blkgiven.rb
Rehearsal -----------------------------------------------------
rd - block_given?   6.070000   1.620000   7.690000 ( 15.323920)
jv - block_given?   3.530000   0.530000   4.060000 (  9.952521)
rd - &blk          29.620000   2.090000  31.710000 ( 55.018634)
jv - &blk           8.580000   1.400000   9.980000 ( 13.505903)
------------------------------------------- total: 53.440000sec

                        user     system      total        real
rd - block_given?   6.430000   1.550000   7.980000 ( 12.312925)
jv - block_given?   3.470000   0.630000   4.100000 (  7.956797)
rd - &blk          28.920000   2.040000  30.960000 ( 55.456023)
jv - &blk           8.860000   1.350000  10.210000 ( 12.264554)


rick@frodo:/public/rubyscripts$ ruby1.9 blkgiven.rb
Rehearsal -----------------------------------------------------
rd - block_given?   1.950000   0.000000   1.950000 (  2.503581)
jv - block_given?   1.930000   0.010000   1.940000 (  3.029174)
rd - &blk          10.870000   0.020000  10.890000 ( 21.230573)
jv - &blk           2.430000   0.000000   2.430000 (  6.296742)
------------------------------------------- total: 17.210000sec

                        user     system      total        real
rd - block_given?   2.040000   0.010000   2.050000 (  3.862906)
jv - block_given?   1.770000   0.000000   1.770000 (  2.239562)
rd - &blk          10.520000   0.050000  10.570000 ( 17.941764)
jv - &blk           2.450000   0.010000   2.460000 (  3.961397)
rick@frodo:/public/rubyscripts$
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Rick DeNatale

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