From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2008-02-18T21:04:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc.

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:04:58AM +0900, Daniel Sch�mer wrote:
[...]
> fri installed with RubyGems is faster (0.228 / 0.385), fri from
> the tarball ist slower (0.147 / 0.088) than or your box.
> 
> Is my box just slower than yours and is this the result of
> improvements in the RubyGems-installed code?

The times you quoted were taken on a machine more or less comparable to yours.
RubyGems has improved recently, to the point that most people might not notice
the difference between running fri directly or through RubyGems. At this point
it only seems to matter if you're using fri in your editor to display info for
expansion candidates, etc.

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