From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2002-12-05T20:14:59+09:00
Subject: Re: speeding up ...

Mark Probert <probertm@nortelnetworks.com> writes:

> My question is this: 30% of the time is spent in Array#each.  Is there any
> way to speed this up and still keep some semblance of readability?

Don't use Arrary#each.

#! /usr/bin/ruby
#
if ARGV.size != 1
    puts "usage: #{$0} <filename>"
    exit(1)
end

f = File.open(ARGV[0]){|fh| fh.read}

nl = f.count("\n")
nw = f.tr_s("^\t\n\v\f\r ", "x").count("x")
nc = f.size

puts "    #{nl}    #{nw}    #{nc} #{ARGV[0]}"

-- 
eban