On Jan 26, 2011, at 4:06 AM, Josep M. Bach wrote:

> A while ago, I was looking at Minitest's benchmarking capabilities (contained 
> in a single file here) and I thought it would be great to have an equivalent 
> in RSpec. They have methods to assert type of performance (linear, 
> exponential...) of a given block. Looking at minitest's file it might be 
> relatively trivial to implement, but the question is: do you think that would 
> naturally fit in rspec-matchers, or in a separate rspec-benchmark gem/plugin?
> Personally I think it's a good piece of functionality and deserves being 
> baked in RSpec, but I'm not sure if many people would actually use it. 
> Thoughts? 

I'd like to see it in an extension gem first. We can always merge it in if it 
becomes a standard component. If not, it's just more stuff to maintain that 
nobody uses :)
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