From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-07-08T02:35:18+09:00
Subject: Re: flatulent-0.0.3


On Jul 7, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Chris Carter wrote:

> Ara,
> That is because you set defl and flat inside a block, without setting
> the variables to nil before the block is executed, so they stay
> existing for the actual decode stage.
>

??

# defl = html = code = nil  ### irrelevant
pairs = Array.new(200)

GC.disable
i = 0

begin
   Benchmark.bm(13) do |x|
     i += 1
     defl = html = code = nil  ### irrelevant
     x.report("generate:") { flat = Flatulent.new; html = flat.form;  
code = flat.string }
     x.report("setup:")    { defl = Deflatulent.new  }
     x.report("break:")    { raise "failed on attempt #{ i }" unless  
defl.deflatulent(html) == code }
     x.report("generate 200:") { 200.times{|index| flat =  
Flatulent.new; pairs[index] = [flat.form,flat.string] } }
     x.report("break 200:") { pairs.map{|(html,code)| raise unless  
defl.deflatulent(html) == code } }
   end
ensure
   puts "Flatulent.version : #{ Flatulent.version }"
end



it fails on the very first attempt:


cfp:~ > ruby a.rb
                    user     system      total        real
generate:      0.140000   0.020000   0.170000 (  0.179983)
setup:         0.020000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.022315)
break:       Flatulent.version : 0.0.4
a.rb:64: failed on attempt 1 (RuntimeError)
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure'
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:377:in `report'
         from a.rb:64
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:177:in `benchmark'
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:207:in `bm'
         from a.rb:59


cheers.


-a
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