From: Joel VanderWerf Date: 2008-03-08T03:41:03+09:00 Subject: Re: duplicating characters in a string Robert Klemme wrote: > What version did you test with? I get much more dramatic differences: $ ruby -v ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-linux] Surprising. The slower cases in your results are all the block cases. Does cygwin ruby perform poorly with blocks in general? Or is it because my ruby is compiled for i686 instead of i386? -- vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407