From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-03-03T06:06:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Is faster using abbreviated parameter names?

El Lunes, 2 de Marzo de 2009, Robert Klemme escribió:
> On 02.03.2009 21:48, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> > Hi, a simple question:
> >
> > a)
> >   def hello(string)
> >     # stuff with 'string'
> >   end
> >
> > b)
> >   def hello(s)
> >     # stuff with 's'
> >   end
> >
> >
> > Will be b) faster since the parameter name contains less letters?
>
> I have no idea.  I guess not.  But you can easily verify for yourself.
> Just write up a little program using Benchmark and you'll soon know.

Yes, doing a benchmark the result is more or less the same (any other factor 
seems to be more important), but what I want to know is what should be the 
response based on how Ruby works. Under my understanding Ruby needs to parse 
during runtime the variable name so a longer variable name would require more 
time, am I wrong?

Thanks a lot.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo