From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-09T19:09:54+09:00
Subject: Re: duplicating characters in a string

On 07.03.2008 19:41, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 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?

Probably.  But note that blocks must be slower because they are Ruby 
code while the replacement without block is done in compiled C code.

Kind regards

	robert