On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Mike Austin <mike_ekim / yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> So if a new context is created for every block call in map(), in
> theory it should be slower than a for-in loop, correct?  ¨Â§ìèáöå ôï
> try it when I get home.
>
> Mike
>
>
No not really (at least for 1.9)
http://gist.github.com/391953
here is the output
ruby -v loops.rb
ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i686-linux]
Rehearsal ----------------------------------------
loop   1.340000   0.000000   1.340000 (  1.508669)
each   1.340000   0.010000   1.350000 (  1.388928)
------------------------------- total: 2.690000sec

           user     system      total        real
loop   1.380000   0.010000   1.390000 (  1.419883)
each   1.370000   0.000000   1.370000 (  1.417870)

ruby -v loops.rb
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]
Rehearsal ----------------------------------------
loop   3.690000   0.650000   4.340000 (  4.927702)
each   4.570000   0.770000   5.340000 (  5.764859)
------------------------------- total: 9.680000sec

           user     system      total        real
loop   4.000000   0.630000   4.630000 (  4.739408)
each   4.510000   0.680000   5.190000 (  5.489487)


My naý×e interpretation would be that the closure is here anyway only
that with for in it contains a ref to i and with each a copy. Memory
usage should be up though.

Cheers
R.

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