From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-03-18T00:06:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby "Speedup" hints?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:20:59PM +0900, Avdi Grimm wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Ilan Berci <coder68@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  There is only 1 hint:
> >
> >  PROFILE IT!!!
> 
> +1
> 
> All discussions of performance tuning are meaningless without
> profiling numbers.

Profiling only tells you where performance bottlenecks are.  It does
nothing for letting you know how to fix those bottlenecks.  That's where
benchmarks come into play.

Paul