From: Darrin Thompson <dthompson@...>
Date: 2001-11-03T02:34:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24185] Re: Performance of Marshal.dump

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>
>  * try dumping to the files
>
>    In 1.6.x, dumping to strings is REALLY slow.
>
Wow. I tried it. He's not kidding.

 From the profiler:

 Line time%  time  count
 <snip>
   21   0%   0.00      1 output=File.new ('output', 'w')
   22   3%   0.31      1 Marshal.dump(array, output)
   23   0%   0.00      1 output.close
<snip>

The resulting file was 222K. :-D

Darrin