From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2003-01-24T20:39:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Single vs double quotes and performance? Hello E, Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 9:40:22 PM, you wrote: EFvdL> The reasoning behind this is that I read somewhere that the Ruby EFvdL> interpreter handles single quotes faster than double quotes because EFvdL> it doesn't have to parse the string looking for special characters. EFvdL> Still I come across lots of code which never uses single quotes and EFvdL> am guessing that the speed gain is not even noticeable in most cases. why not test this himself? :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru