From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T18:27:12+09:00
Subject: Re: "ri intern" not working?

On Behalf Of SpringFlowers AutumnMoon
# by the way, sometimes ri is really slow.  is there a way just 
# to build the index or speed up the search?

do yourself a favor, use fastri (faster w more features)

botp@pc4all:~$ time fri string#intern
---------------------------------------------------------- String#intern
     str.intern   => symbol
     str.to_sym   => symbol
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Returns the Symbol corresponding to str, creating the symbol if it
     did not previously exist. See Symbol#id2name.

        "Koala".intern         #=> :Koala
        s = 'cat'.to_sym       #=> :cat
        s == :cat              #=> true
        s = '@cat'.to_sym      #=> :@cat
        s == :@cat             #=> true

     This can also be used to create symbols that cannot be represented
     using the :xxx notation.

        'cat and dog'.to_sym   #=> :"cat and dog"


real    0m3.006s
user    0m2.416s
sys     0m0.200s
botp@pc4all:~$ time qri string#intern
<..snip..>

real    0m3.036s
user    0m2.792s
sys     0m0.216s

botp@pc4all:~$ time ri string#intern
Bad argument: string#intern

real    0m12.493s
user    0m7.520s
sys     0m1.356s

ri is too slow and case sensitive.

kind regards -botp