Method call vs. send benchmark in Ruby

method_call-vs-send.rb

require 'benchmark'

Benchmark.bm do |bm|
  repeat = 10000000

  bm.report('send') { repeat.times { 5.send(:>, 2) } }
  bm.report('method.call') { repeat.times { 5.method(:>).call(2) } }
end

#        user     system      total        real
# send  0.640115   0.000992   0.641107 (  0.642627)
# method.call  2.629482   0.007149   2.636631 (  2.644439)