From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2011-01-15T11:06:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Parallel Assignments and Elegance/Complexity Ratio.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Now the only thing that's puzzling me is why the MRI 1.9.1 "cheating
> honestly" version of parallel assignment seems to be slightly but
> clearly faster than the MRI 1.9.1 single assignment!

Yes, that is a bit baffling! I have no explanation for that. As you
can see in JRuby, the times for the non-expression parallel assignment
and the normal assignment are roughly the same.

> require "benchmark"
> kt = 10_000_000
> nn = 1
> nn.times{ puts Benchmark.measure { kt.times {a,b,c=1,2,3     } } }
> nn.times{ puts Benchmark.measure { kt.times {a,b,c=1,2,3; nil} } }
> nn.times{ puts Benchmark.measure { kt.times {a = 1; b = 2; c = 3 } } }
>
> jruby 1.5.3 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 249) (2010-09-28 7ca06d7)
>  (Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_14) [x86-java]
>  3.038000   0.000000   3.038000 (  3.007000)
>  1.561000   0.000000   1.561000 (  1.562000)
>  1.558000   0.000000   1.558000 (  1.558000)

FWIW, you'd get better results here if you ran a couple iterations,
and of course if you specified --server it's significantly better...

~/projects/jruby ➔ jruby -v passign.rb
jruby 1.6.0.RC1 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 330) (2011-01-14 da2bb9d) (Java
HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_22) [darwin-i386-java]
  1.952000   0.000000   1.952000 (  1.839000)
  1.784000   0.000000   1.784000 (  1.784000)
  1.796000   0.000000   1.796000 (  1.796000)
  0.919000   0.000000   0.919000 (  0.919000)
  0.865000   0.000000   0.865000 (  0.865000)
  0.856000   0.000000   0.856000 (  0.856000)
  0.961000   0.000000   0.961000 (  0.961000)
  0.924000   0.000000   0.924000 (  0.924000)
  0.880000   0.000000   0.880000 (  0.880000)

~/projects/jruby ➔ jruby --server -v passign.rb
jruby 1.6.0.RC1 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 330) (2011-01-14 da2bb9d) (Java
HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.6.0_22) [darwin-i386-java]
  1.388000   0.000000   1.388000 (  1.324000)
  1.086000   0.000000   1.086000 (  1.086000)
  1.034000   0.000000   1.034000 (  1.034000)
  0.522000   0.000000   0.522000 (  0.522000)
  0.500000   0.000000   0.500000 (  0.500000)
  0.491000   0.000000   0.491000 (  0.491000)
  0.517000   0.000000   0.517000 (  0.517000)
  0.485000   0.000000   0.485000 (  0.485000)
  0.496000   0.000000   0.496000 (  0.496000)