From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2007-11-24T12:15:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2)

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:28:33 -0500, Jari Williamsson
<jari.williamsson@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:

>> None of it was very interesting. The hard drive was NOT defragged
>> until later. After degfragging a bit, the tests run in 33 seconds the
>> first time and 15 the second. (This strikes me as odd also.)
>
>Why would that be odd? The 2nd time, it'd be in the cache?

The disk cache you mean? I suppose that could be the difference.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com