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Created January 16, 2016 01:14
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constant_vs_literal.rb
require "benchmark/ips"
CONSTANT = %w(foo bar baz)
Benchmark.ips do |x|
x.report("literal") { %w(foo bar baz).include?("foo") }
x.report("constant") { CONSTANT.include?("foo") }
end
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output.txt
Calculating -------------------------------------
literal 81.923k i/100ms
constant 111.304k i/100ms
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literal 2.104M (± 4.1%) i/s - 10.568M
constant 4.386M (± 4.5%) i/s - 21.927M
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