Performance testing really stupid integer counting in Ruby

gistfile1.rb

require 'time'

ITERATIONS = 1000000

rows = [[5,25,2005,1,0,143,2]]

def max_ugly(rows)
  max = 1
  divvy = 10
  rows.each do |row|
    while true do
      if row[1].to_i / divvy > 0
        max = max + 1
        divvy = divvy * 10
      else
        break
      end
    end
  end
  max
end

def max_elegant(rows)
  rows.collect { |row| row[1].to_s }.map(&:length).max
end

s = Time.now
1.upto(ITERATIONS) {
  max_ugly(rows)
}
e = Time.now
ugly_time = e - s

s = Time.now
1.upto(ITERATIONS) {
  max_elegant(rows)
}
e = Time.now

elegant_time = e - s

puts "Ugly: #{ugly_time.to_f} seconds"
puts "Elegant: #{elegant_time.to_f} seconds"