From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-12-28T20:19:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8168] Re: speedup of anagram finder

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

J> Here's one strange thing... notice that each_byte didn't get
J> *hit* on it's first run.  Now, if I switch the top 2 tests
J> I get:
[...]
J> each_byte got bytten ;-)  but so did keys on it's first run.

 Well, probably "keys" need more objects (memory ?) than "each_byte"

 If "keys" is run first, ruby don't need to allocate new objects for
 "each_byte" 

 If "each_byte" is run first, some objects are allocated but "keys" still
need to allocate more objects.


Guy Decoux