From: Josh Huber Date: 2002-07-12T05:31:03+09:00 Subject: Re: spliter of for...each: looping Tom Sawyer writes: >> "junk#{x}morejunk" is much faster then "junk" << x << "morejunk" > > oh, FYI, both of these are faster then "junk" + x + "morejunk" Right, this isn't too surprising since the number of extra intermediate objects created is vastly less with the version using string interpolation. In any case, the collect & join method makes it clearer (to me) what is actually going on. -- Josh Huber