From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-16T14:53:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7408] Re: Ruby performance question

"Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net> writes:

> def park_readfile 
>    h = Hash.new 
>    file = File.new("keys") 
>    while line = file.gets 
>      h = Hash[*line.chomp!.tr!('=', ',').split(',')] 
>      # do stuff here... 
>      h.clear 
>    end 
>  end 

You could speed this up a bit more... you don't need the h.clear
anymore, as you're creating the hash fresh each time around.

Dave