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• Eh? (Score:2)

  by djberg96 (2603)

  I have no idea what you've been smoking, because there's no way you should be getting that kind of discrepency. Either you're using a very old version of ruby, your interpreter is broken, or you've been sniffing glue again.

  For my results, I used ruby 1.6.7 and perl 5.8.0 on Mandrake 9. I took the sample text you gave in your journal entry and copied it over and over until I ended up with a 2.4 MB file. I used "bzip-0.21" as the target. Hopefully, I didn't screw up the logic.

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  • Re:Eh? (Score:1)

    by runrig (3385)

    Since the 'optimized' ruby code doesn't short-circuit testing the rest of the fields on a successful match, you could make the perl a little more perlish also:
    

    $count++ if grep m{$target}, (split /\|/) [0,3,6..8]

    Or use List::Util::first instead of grep (though it may only be an improvement on bigger arrays).

    I'm using perl 5.6.1 and ruby 1.6.8 and getting ruby about twice as slow as perl.
    • Re:Eh? (Score:2)

      by djberg96 (2603)

      You're right - I forgot to short circuit. I'm not sure how that helps Ruby's case, though. Add a "break" after the "count += 1" line. It didn't seem to improve performance significantly for me, though.
      • Re:Eh? (Score:1)

        by runrig (3385) <dougwNO@SPAMcpan.org> on 2003.01.16 0:34 (#16064) Journal

        The match only occurs in 1 out of every 6 lines (using your target and the sample data in the top post here), so you'd only see at most about a 16% benefit (if that). If the match occurred early in the string on more lines, there might be more benefit.

        I just installed Ruby today, and have been poking through online docs earlier, and couldn't find a 'break' or 'last' statement. Is there such a thing? The best I could come up with was throwing an exception and catching it outside that loop. I still need to get a Ruby book...

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        • Re:Eh? (Score:2)

          by djberg96 (2603)

          I still need to get a Ruby book...

          Visit rubycentral [rubycentral.com] or ruby-doc [ruby-doc.org].

          The first link is an online version of Programming Ruby, aka "The Pickaxe". You can still buy that book at the store, if you prefer paper.
          • Re:Eh? (Score:1)

            by runrig (3385)

            I had looked through the online book, but couldn't find a 'break' at first. I finally did find 'break', 'next', and 'redo' in the Expressions section; I had been looking in the Iterators section.

            I was poking through the bookstore and the only Ruby book there was Sam's "Learn Ruby in 21 days". I can't recommend it, as it had no mention of 'break', 'next', or 'redo', nor the IO.foreach method in your example (and it was a thick book).