From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-16T07:40:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7357] Re: Ruby performance question

Eric Crampton <EricCrampton@worldnet.att.net> writes:

> Running on a small dataset of 13 MB of data (around 81000 lines), the
> program takes about 27 seconds on my Linux machine. An equivalent Perl
> code to do the same thing runs in about 10 seconds.

What happens if you disable garbage collection before you start, and
re-enable it after you read in the whole file? It could be that with
the large number of objects you're creating the GC scan could be quite 
expensive.


Dave