From: "Lionel Bouton" <lionel-subscription / bouton.name>
>
> Here's a 157_benchmark_2.rb which benchs on several point distributions 
> (square, disk, circle and gaussian) and my code adapted to the benchmark 
> (the convex hull was done outside of encircle so it wasn't active for 
> the benchmark).

Neat!  :)

-- Random on disk --
             user     system      total        real
FRANK   23.407000   0.313000  23.720000 ( 23.734000)
JUSTIN   4.359000   0.000000   4.359000 (  4.360000)
DOUG     3.719000   0.031000   3.750000 (  3.750000)
PHILIPP  2.703000   0.000000   2.703000 (  2.704000)
LIONEL   0.734000   0.031000   0.765000 (  0.765000)
BILL     0.282000   0.000000   0.282000 (  0.281000)
-- Random on square --
             user     system      total        real
FRANK   27.734000   0.282000  28.016000 ( 28.016000)
JUSTIN   7.422000   0.000000   7.422000 (  7.422000)
DOUG     3.703000   0.000000   3.703000 (  3.703000)
PHILIPP  1.422000   0.000000   1.422000 (  1.422000)
LIONEL   0.750000   0.000000   0.750000 (  0.750000)
BILL     0.344000   0.000000   0.344000 (  0.343000)
-- 2D Gaussian --
             user     system      total        real
FRANK   27.297000   0.093000  27.390000 ( 27.406000)
LIONEL  16.141000   0.000000  16.141000 ( 16.219000)
JUSTIN   8.047000   0.000000   8.047000 (  8.094000)
PHILIPP  0.422000   0.000000   0.422000 (  0.422000)
BILL     0.172000   0.000000   0.172000 (  0.172000)
DOUG     0.140000   0.000000   0.140000 (  0.140000)
-- Random on circle --
             user     system      total        real
FRANK   28.187000   0.079000  28.266000 ( 28.344000)
LIONEL  16.547000   0.000000  16.547000 ( 16.657000)
JUSTIN   7.297000   0.000000   7.297000 (  7.328000)
PHILIPP  0.468000   0.000000   0.468000 (  0.469000)
DOUG     0.172000   0.000000   0.172000 (  0.171000)
BILL     0.141000   0.000000   0.141000 (  0.141000)


Regards,

Bill