Hi,

At Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:53:11 +0900,
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:40:22AM +0900, E F van de Laar wrote:
> > Is my nitpicking going to help me out in the long run or am I just
> > waisting my time here.  This minor issue has been itching my brain
> > for a while now. :)
> 
> $ cat single_quotes  
> 100_000.times { puts 'Hello World' }
> $ cat double_quotes 
> 100_000.times { puts "Hello World" }

Performance difference between single and double quotes does
exist only at compile time.  Those two ASTs are absolutely
equivalent.  Nothing differs while execution.

If you really want to measure the difference, you have to feed
very huge literals, or eval them.

-- 
Nobu Nakada