Ruby Benchmark Quiz

quiz.rb

# Comment with what benchmark you think would be faster, and why.

require "benchmark"

data = {
  'foo' => 'bar'
}

count = 100_000_000

time = Benchmark.measure do
  count.times do
    data['foo']
  end
end
puts time

key = 'foo'
time = Benchmark.measure do
  count.times do
    data[key]
  end
end
puts time

● master ~/Desktop » ruby quiz.rb
  8.350000   0.010000   8.360000 (  8.365999)
 11.740000   0.050000  11.790000 ( 11.959589)