First, thanks a lot for your benchmarking tips, I'm new in the
business; and thanks for your BM-friendly rewrite of my code.
However, I still keep getting unexpected results:
jablan-mbp:dev $ ruby bm1.rb
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------
2 chars 0.840000 0.000000 0.840000 ( 0.863001)
7 chars 0.590000 0.010000 0.600000 ( 0.597103)
---------------------------------- total: 1.440000sec
user system total real
2 chars 0.900000 0.000000 0.900000 ( 0.909053)
7 chars 0.620000 0.000000 0.620000 ( 0.644989)
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------
2 chars 0.910000 0.000000 0.910000 ( 0.924786)
7 chars 0.620000 0.010000 0.630000 ( 0.631793)
---------------------------------- total: 1.540000sec
user system total real
2 chars 0.900000 0.000000 0.900000 ( 0.909935)
7 chars 0.570000 0.000000 0.570000 ( 0.578445)
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------
2 chars 0.880000 0.010000 0.890000 ( 0.892464)
7 chars 0.650000 0.000000 0.650000 ( 0.672226)
---------------------------------- total: 1.540000sec
user system total real
2 chars 0.910000 0.010000 0.920000 ( 0.947815)
7 chars 0.580000 0.000000 0.580000 ( 0.593960)
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------
2 chars 0.890000 0.010000 0.900000 ( 0.896618)
7 chars 0.650000 0.000000 0.650000 ( 0.660125)
---------------------------------- total: 1.550000sec
user system total real
2 chars 0.900000 0.000000 0.900000 ( 0.919042)
7 chars 0.590000 0.010000 0.600000 ( 0.595202)
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------
2 chars 0.900000 0.000000 0.900000 ( 0.913919)
7 chars 0.660000 0.010000 0.670000 ( 0.682484)
---------------------------------- total: 1.570000sec
user system total real
2 chars 0.920000 0.000000 0.920000 ( 0.950286)
7 chars 0.590000 0.010000 0.600000 ( 0.601025)
I will try to run the code on other platforms and/or ruby versions and
I will post the findings... The bad thing is that I'm not doing this
just for kicks, I need to optimise a nasty script... :(