From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2003-02-19T15:05:08+09:00
Subject: Re: String#+ operatorbroken?

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

> On Wednesday, 19 February 2003 at  9:47:53 +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
>> 
>>   100000.times { |i|
>>     s << "fred\n"  # this completes in less than 1 second
>>     #s += "fred\n"  # this blows up real fast
>
> To be more clear, 'blows up' refers to time and not necessarily memory.

The "+=" version runs really slow in both ruby 1.6.8 and current CVS
(1.8.0).  The "<<" version runs much faster in both.


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matt