From: Joshua Ball <chezball@...>
Date: 2009-06-18T02:06:59+09:00
Subject: String += vs <<

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A friend recently sent me this article:
http://blog.metasploit.com/2009/03/blog-post.html

In particular, note the perf difference of += vs << :

framework3 $ time ruby -e 'a = "A"; 100000.times { a << "A" }'
>
> real 0m*0.338s*
> user 0m*0.312s*
> sys 0m0.024s
>
> framework3 $ time ruby -e 'a = "A"; 100000.times { a += "A" }'
>
> real 0m*15.462s*
> user 0m*15.321s*
> sys 0m0.068s


Also note:

*Before you run off and change every instance of += to << in your ruby code*,
> it's important to note that the two don't perform the same operation.
> Because ruby does assignment by reference, the latter overwrites any
> variables that point to the one you're operating on while the former leaves
> any references untouched.
>
>
> framework3 $ irb
> >> a = "A"
> => "A"
> >> b = a
> => "A"
> >> a << "B"
> => "AB"
> >> b
> => "AB"

>> c = "C"
> => "C"
> >> d = c
> => "C"
> >> c += "D"
> => "CD"
> >> d
> => "C"
>



Thought I would pass it along...

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