From: Avdi Grimm Date: 2008-03-19T05:26:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby "Speedup" hints? On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Robert Klemme wrote: > Yes, that's true. But I'm inclined to say that even in Java there is a > single operation that is always the most expensive (not counting IO of > course) and this is object creation. In the embedded version of Java, where it is possible to pre-allocate objects and object pools, even this may not be a reliable truism. -- Avdi