From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-11-11T05:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array


> Is there any way to tell what architecture Ruby thinks I'm using?
>
> RK> Cheers
>
> RK> robert
>   

Check the size of an integer.

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> 1.size
=> 8


$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-linux]
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> 1.size
=> 4


-Justin