From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T23:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2)

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:24:33 -0500, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org>
wrote:

>He's asking if the last element of this:
>   ["localhost", ["test"], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]
>is the same.

Still don't understand. Same as what?

I'm entering this line at the command prompt:

ruby -rsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")' ["localhost",
["test"], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]

(all on one line)

and after 6 seconds at Borders and 8 at home, it echoes:

["localhost", [], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]

>
>This is possibly a long shot, but what's in your RUBYOPT environment 
>variable?

it contains:

  -rubygems

with the dash. 

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com