From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2003-03-13T00:44:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal.dump() taking a long time

Philip Mak <pmak@aaanime.net> writes:

> Thanks for the suggestion! I changed:
>
> 	print Marshal.dump(dict)
>
> to:
>
> 	Marshal.dump(dict, STDOUT)
>
> and it runs fine now.
>
> Interesting thing I noticed before when I was doing it the slow way -
> 1000 entries took 1 second, but 2000 entries took 7.7 seconds. So the
> time required seemed to scale up exponentially.

What version of ruby are you using?  String concatenation is much
faster under ruby 1.8.


-- 
matt