From: "Andreas S." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-03T22:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby performance

Dan Connelly wrote in post #1067093:
> Curious when I did the loop in C how huge the speed increase was with
> -O1 versus -O0...

No surprise there; the loop doesn't do anything, so the optimizer can 
reduce the program to "return 0". And that's what is wrong with a 
benchmark like this. Rule of thumb, if you have to disable the optimizer 
to get a result, your benchmark is useless.

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