From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-11-07T23:01:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24515] Re: Ruby Performance (was Re: Joys of eval)

Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> string using built-in methods like String#count, tr and squeeze.  I
> thought that if I was clever and used String#each_byte to just iterate
> through the String once and do my counting, it would be faster.  This
> was wrong.  It ended up being quite a bit slower (and didn't work

Furthermore, "yield" (used by "each") is 1.5 to 5 times slower than a 
regular method call.

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