#ruby #benchmark

benchmark.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'benchmark'

iterations = 1_000_000

Benchmark.bm do |bm|
  # joining an array of strings
  bm.report do
    iterations.times do
      ["The", "current", "time", "is", Time.now].join(" ")
    end
  end

  # using string interpolation
  bm.report do
    iterations.times do
      "The current time is #{Time.now}"
    end
  end
end

       user     system      total        real
   0.969262   0.008949   0.978211 (  0.978292)
   0.673414   0.001981   0.675395 (  0.675425)

@ozeias finally broke the 1 second time!

@gauravs crazy to look back and see how much faster are the new devices.