From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-07-20T17:48:52+09:00
Subject: Re: The next number that is not in an array

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Bill Walton <bill.walton@charter.net> wrote:
<snip>
> Second question has to do with comments Robert Dober made like '10 times
> slower' and '50 times faster'.  I'm assuming there's some benchmarking
> capability I need to learn more about.  Could somebody point me?  Also, is
> this capability available in IRB?
I would not use it with IRB because often you have to twist parameters.

Unfortunately I have not kept my benchmarks that gave the above
results, but I gladly post the benchmark code
that I used to benchmark my approach with Erik's enhancements. This
with the rdoc documentation of benchmark should be enough to get you
going.

http://pastie.org/237335
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/benchmark/rdoc/index.html

HTH
Robert