On Mon, December 11, 2006 12:58 am, Kem Tekinay wrote:
> I've been spending way too much time on what started as a mere academic
> problem, but after much experimentation, I've come to a number of
> conclusions that I'd like to share. I hope you can benefit from them as I
> think I have.

Good summary, Kem! Very interesting stuff. I'm pleased RB *can* be as fast
or faster than Perl, though it may take some optimizations to get there.

One other observation: I tested this final code against your original on
my MacBook and got very different results: 65 and 72 seconds respectively
(old vs. new). Not much difference. This was within the IDE which is known
to be slower so I built an application and ran that and got results closer
to yours: 13.6 and 65 seconds (new/old).

My conclusion: if you're testing optimizations, be sure you use a built
app! I knew IDE apps were slower but I would have expected both results to
be similarly effected. Instead the old method only got a few seconds
better compiled as an app while the new method was dramatically faster
compiled. I've no idea why, but it's interesting.


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