From: George George Date: 2009-01-17T17:10:50+09:00 Subject: Re: Describing degerate dna strings Thank you so much for all the replies. Here is a simple benchmark for Brian and Jesus approaches. I Run it on ubuntu 8.04, 1GB RAM, 2 CPUs 3.40GHz. ..... ... require 'benchmark' Benchmark.bm do |bm| bm.report("Brian:") do expand_seq "t[ac][tc]aaattaag[ga]gaag[ac]ttggtgga" do |seq| #puts seq end end bm.report("Jesus:") do /t[ac][tc]aaattaag[ga]gaag[ac]ttggtgga/.generate end end ser system total real Brian: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.000642) Jesus: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.003574) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.