From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2013-01-29T05:13:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Please explain in English

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Joel Pearson <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> wrote in post
> #1094106:
>> string.downcase.scan(/\w+/) {|word| res[word] += 1}
>
> I tried benchmarking out of curiosity and that is a lot faster! Nicely
> done.

I guess the reason is that you avoid the intermediate arrays.

Jesus.