From: rubydeckard@...
Date: 2007-11-26T04:30:00+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC - Recursive Array Method call acting on element batches

Thanks for your input guys.  That put me on the right track.

  def proc_array(method_obj, batch_size = 2)
    result = []
    self.each_slice(batch_size) do |batch|
      result.concat method_obj.call(batch)
    end
    result
  end

That turns out to be twice as fast as the recursive method.  The only
trouble I experienced was getting each_slice into my class.  Turns out
that there's an error with the ruby core library documentation
produced by RDoc. #each_slice is available via the *standard* library
'enumerator.rb', not the core module library Enumerable as is
documented at www.ruby-doc.org.  Once I figured that out, all is
peachy keen.

Thanks,

Ben