From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2008-07-20T20:15:59+09:00
Subject: Re: The next number that is not in an array

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Also, have a look at:
http://github.com/Pistos/better-benchmark
It helps you doing statistically correct benchmarking

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