James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Alex Young wrote:
> 
>> Gregory Brown wrote:
>>> On 7/30/07, Alex Young <alex / blackkettle.org> wrote:
>>>> Benchmark.bmbm(20) do |x|
>>>>    x.report("if"){for i in 0..1000000 do
>>> Yuck!
>>> 1000000.times do ... end
>> Meh.
> 
> It has nothing to do with timing.  It's about ugly verses pretty.  :)
To be perfectly honest, I had it fixed in my head that for...in... was 
faster than N.times {} when I wrote the original code, and was just 
trying to get rid of an unnecessary overhead.  Just shows what use 
assumptions like that are...

-- 
Alex