From: Farhad Farzaneh <ff@...>
Date: 2007-05-31T08:12:34+09:00
Subject: Does this benchmark make sense?

Hello,

I was playing around with some Ruby features and benchmarked the
following, showing that making a class call using "self.method" is
faster than doing the same using "Classname.method".  Doesn't make much
sense to me, but I'm not much of a benchmarker, so am hoping someone
will comment on this.


require 'benchmark'

class VarEval
  @@t=10

  def self.t
    @@t
  end

  def t
    @@t
  end

  def self.time
    n=5_000_000
    Benchmark.bm do |x|
      x.report("direct") {  n.times { VarEval.t } }
      x.report("send") { n.times { VarEval.send(:t) } }
      x.report("eval") {  n.times { eval("@@#{'t'}") } }
    end
  end

  def self.time2
    n=5_000_000
    Benchmark.bm do |x|
      x.report("direct") {  n.times { self.t } }
      x.report("send") { n.times { self.send(:t) } }
      x.report("eval") {  n.times { eval("@@#{'t'}") } }
    end
  end


  def time
    n=5_000_000
    Benchmark.bm do |x|
      x.report("direct") {  n.times { self.class.t } }
      x.report("send") { n.times { self.class.send(:t) } }
      x.report("eval") {  n.times { eval("@@#{'t'}") } }
    end
  end

  def sanity
     puts "self.t=",self.t
     puts "self.class.t=",self.class.t
     puts %w{eval("@@#{'t'}")},eval("@@#{'t'}")
  end

  def self.sanity
     puts "self.t=",self.t
     puts "VarEval.t=",VarEval.t
     puts %w{eval("@@#{'t'}")},eval("@@#{'t'}")
  end

end

# VarEval.sanity
# VarEval.new.sanity
VarEval.time
VarEval.time2
VarEval.new.time

# RESULTS in ORDER for
# VarEval.time
# VarEval.time2
# VarEval.new.time
# 5_000_000 tries
#       user     system      total        real
# direct  2.230000   0.010000   2.240000 (  2.313980)
# send  2.830000   0.020000   2.850000 (  2.919039)
# eval 11.440000   0.050000  11.490000 ( 11.667510)
#       user     system      total        real
# direct  1.880000   0.010000   1.890000 (  1.900675)
# send  2.460000   0.010000   2.470000 (  2.509326)
# eval 11.440000   0.050000  11.490000 ( 11.688772)
#       user     system      total        real
# direct  2.360000   0.010000   2.370000 (  2.395637)
# send  2.970000   0.010000   2.980000 (  3.011359)
# eval 11.460000   0.050000  11.510000 ( 11.651057)

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