From: David Garamond Date: 2003-01-25T10:14:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Single vs double quotes and performance? Gavin Sinclair wrote: >>require 'benchmark' >>include Benchmark > >>data = ((0..9).to_a.to_s) * 2000000 >>double = %!"#{data}"! >>single = "'#{data}'" > > 'single' doesn't look like a single-quoted string to me. it is when it's eval'ed. -- dave