Ruby Benchmark Howto

benchmark_ruby_block.rb

require "benchmark"

def calculation_with_explicit_block_passing(a, b, operation)
 operation.call(a, b)
end

def calculation_with_implicit_block_passing(a, b)
 yield(a, b)
end

Benchmark.bmbm(10) do |report|
 report.report("explicit") do
   addition = lambda { |a, b| a + b }
   1000.times { calculation_with_explicit_block_passing(5, 5, addition) }
 end

 report.report("implicit") do
   1000.times { calculation_with_implicit_block_passing(5, 5) { |a, b| a + b } }
 end
end