From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-08-02T02:02:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance diffrence between ifs and case

On 7/31/07, Paul <Paul.McArdles@gmail.com> wrote:
> def nop
> end
>
>
> Benchmark.bmbm(20) do |x|
>    x.report("range"){for i in 0..1000000 do nop end}
>    x.report("times"){1000000.times do nop end}
>    x.report("each"){(0..1000000).each do nop end}
> end
> ------------------------------------------------
> range     0.657000   0.000000   0.657000 (  0.656000)
> times     0.609000   0.000000   0.609000 (  0.609000)
> each      0.594000   0.000000   0.594000 (  0.594000)
> ----------------------------- total: 1.860000sec
>
>          user     system      total        real
> range     0.641000   0.000000   0.641000 (  0.640000)
> times     0.594000   0.000000   0.594000 (  0.594000)
> each      0.578000   0.000000   0.578000 (  0.594000)

I'll remember this next time I want to save 0.03 s per 1000000 iterations.

<groans>

My original point was that if you want to do something n times, use n.times
:)