From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2012-02-03T10:36:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Basic Ruby performance

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:

>
> You're replacing a method call (a.match b) with a syntactic construct a =~
> b, the latter of which bypasses method dispatch and goes straight to the
> C-implimentation.
>
>
Wow, I never knew that. I don't understand how it accomplishes this, a
could be any kind of object with =~ defined anywhere on it, how can it
bypass method dispatch?


> IMHO re.match is just as useless as Regexp.new, Array.new, and Hash.new
> (assuming no args/blocks passed).


I usually use `meth Hash.new` instead of `meth({})` I think it looks
cleaner.

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