From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-03-12T04:51:47+09:00
Subject: Re: duplicating characters in a string

William James wrote:
> Ruby's gsub is far too slow.  7stud even beat it with an each_byte
> loop!

I have not been able to reproduce a benchmark in which each_byte was 
faster than gsub (at least, without resorting to the loop unrolling trick).

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