From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-05-30T17:47:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Array.extend versus instance.extend

On Fri, 30 May 2003 11:16:14 +0200, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> 
> My earlier code says 'Time: 0.007166'.. so this 
> is a *slower* solution.

Sorry not quite true :-)


I ran Guillaume's speed test on the code

ArrayMisc  == the old code (not using detect)
ArrayMisc2 == new code (using detect)

All pop operations within ArrayMisc is slow.
But shift operations seems to be faster with ArrayMisc.

> ruby spt.rb
Speed test with ArrayMisc
shift 10000: 0.068033
pop 10000: 7.099999999999999e-05
shift 5000: 0.029729
pop 5000: 0.218009
shift 3333: 0.01859
pop 3333: 0.412474
shift 2500: 0.013405
pop 2500: 0.540523
shift 2000: 0.011306
pop 2000: 0.629184
shift 1666: 0.00953
pop 1666: 0.730164
shift 1428: 0.007726999999999999
pop 1428: 0.729752
shift 1250: 0.006794
pop 1250: 0.78048
shift 1111: 0.006069
pop 1111: 0.778281
shift 1000: 0.005391
pop 1000: 0.816113
Speed test with ArrayMisc2
shift 10000: 0.077073
pop 10000: 0.001267
shift 5000: 0.043104
pop 5000: 0.047606
shift 3333: 0.022285
pop 3333: 0.057452
shift 2500: 0.016819
pop 2500: 0.074443
shift 2000: 0.013847
pop 2000: 0.06378299999999999
shift 1666: 0.014762
pop 1666: 0.065674
shift 1428: 0.010433
pop 1428: 0.069156
shift 1250: 0.009172999999999999
pop 1250: 0.070936
shift 1111: 0.008364999999999999
pop 1111: 0.07146
shift 1000: 0.007538
pop 1000: 0.08437799999999999
>
 
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Simon Strandgaard