From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T12:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2)

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:03:36 -0500, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
wrote:
>
>$ time ruby -rsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")'
>["localhost", ["test"], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]
>
>real    0m0.042s
>user    0m0.010s
>sys     0m0.009s

It's a solid 8 seconds on my machine. But ordinary web page access is
nothing like that. What is this telling us?

Thanks,

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com