From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" Date: 2009-02-23T23:33:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Improving hexadecimal escaping performance 2009/2/23 Robert Klemme : > 15:15:25 ~$ ruby -ve 'p "foo"[0]' > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin] > 102 > 15:15:31 ~$ ruby19 -ve 'p "foo"[0]' > ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i386-cygwin] > "f" > 15:15:34 ~$ ruby19 -ve 'p "foo".getbyte(0)' > ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i386-cygwin] > 102 > 15:15:57 ~$ Clear now, thanks :) -- Iñaki Baz Castillo