From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-04-14T01:34:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Need IO Optimization help

il Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:25:47 +0900, Brian Candler
<B.Candler@pobox.com> ha scritto::



>You can eliminate the extra argument by doing
>
>     mycounter = mycounter.succ

well I suppose his point is that not using Fixnum you can have
Counter.succ!, without the need for an assignment , written directly
in C,  possibly faster..
(and though possibly low level optimized as in "inc reg" vs "add
reg,1"  )