From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T23:49:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26138] Re: Community spike: Fast-state-machines/goto challenge

Hey, I've made it slighty faster by assigning to a local variable (instead
of instance var)!

I guess, if ruby had some Array#reduce written in C it would be even faster
(?). Or some var modifier like "register" (?).

Replace

> 	def run (program)
> 		program.each do |token|
> 			@state=@state[1][token]
> 		end
> 	end

with
	def run (program)
		st = @state
		program.each do |token|
			st=st[1][token]
		end
		@state=st
	end

Thank you.