From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-09-24T04:19:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Breaking apart arrays for arguments?

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Thomas B. <tpreal@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kyle Schmitt wrote:
>>       user     system      total        real
>> unshift pure  4.060000   0.660000   4.720000 (  5.908041)
>> unshift, flatten at end  1.660000   0.550000   2.210000 (  2.431595)
>
> Hmmmm.
>
> I run your code without any changes, and I got:
>
>      user     system      total        real
> unshift pure  1.469000   0.046000   1.515000 (  1.547000)
> unshift, flatten at end  3.156000   1.047000   4.203000 (  4.250000)
>
> RUBY_VERSION 1.8.6, RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 287, RUBY_RELEASE_DATE 2008-08-11
> Windows One-Click Installer
>
> That's strange.
>
> TPR.

Very odd indeed, because those are more like the numbers I would have expected!
then again I'm running an old old version, the official binary for CentOS:
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25)

Guess I need to compile something better.