From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-07-06T05:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Renages


On Jul 5, 2011, at 10:34 , Rob Biedenharn wrote:

> You just need to check from the "end" on back and pick the first one that matches.
> 
> xlate = [ [ '0000', '0' ], [ '0100', '1' ], [ '0200', '2' ], [ '0300', '3' ],
>           [ '0400', '4' ], [ '0500', '5' ], [ '0600', '6' ], [ '0700', 'A' ],
>           [ '0730', 'B' ], [ '0800', 'C' ], [ '0830', 'D' ], [ '0900', 'E' ],
>           [ '0930', 'F' ], [ '1000', 'G' ], [ '1030', 'H' ], [ '1100', 'I' ],
>           [ '1130', 'J' ], [ '1200', 'K' ], [ '1230', 'L' ], [ '1300', 'M' ],
>           [ '1330', 'N' ], [ '1400', 'O' ], [ '1430', 'P' ], [ '1500', 'Q' ],
>           [ '1530', 'R' ], [ '1600', 'S' ], [ '1630', 'T' ], [ '1700', 'U' ],
>           [ '1730', 'V' ], [ '1800', 'W' ], [ '1830', 'X' ], [ '1900', 'Y' ],
>           [ '2000', 'Z' ], [ '2100', '7' ], [ '2200', '8' ], [ '2300', '9' ],
>           ].reverse
> #  Note the .reverse here
> 
> time = Time.now.strftime('%H%M')
> xlate.detect{|(start,code)| time >= start}

simple benchmark:

real math             1.180000   0.000000   1.180000 (  1.193925)
table lookup         13.460000   0.040000  13.500000 ( 14.111571)