From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-06-01T06:11:39+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting help needed

7stud -- wrote:
> 
> And this test shows that split() is 13% faster with a regex:
> 
> require 'benchmark'
> include Benchmark
> 
> L_COUNT = 1_000_000
> 
> bm(25) do |test|
>   test.report("split:") do
>     L_COUNT.times do |i|
>       str = "hello|world|goodbye"
>       arr = str.split("|")
>     end
>   end
> 
>   test.report("regex:") do
>     L_COUNT.times do |i|
>       str = "hello|world|goodbye"
>       arr = str.split(/\|/)
>     end
>   end
> end
> 

Whoops.  Here are the results:

                               user     system      total        real
split:                     4.620000   0.030000   4.650000 (  4.661699)
regex:                     4.000000   0.030000   4.030000 (  4.056688)
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