Make it faster

Ruby
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you know those threads where someone posts a bit of slow ruby code, then
people rework it until it’s orders of magnitude faster?

what’s the BEST one you can remember?

thanks.

-a

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On Mar 4, 2007, at 21:28, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

you know those threads where someone posts a bit of slow ruby code,
then
people rework it until it’s orders of magnitude faster?

what’s the BEST one you can remember?

I liked the one I posted with my writeup of making png.rb faster with
RubyInline since Dominik (sp?) gained similar speedups with pure-
ruby. I think the pure-ruby speed-up ended up within an order of
magnitude of the selectively-optimized RubyInline version. Instead
of making the operations faster, Dominik changed the data structures
slightly for speed to reduce work.

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On Mar 5, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Eric H. wrote:

of magnitude of the selectively-optimized RubyInline version.
Instead of making the operations faster, Dominik changed the data
structures slightly for speed to reduce work.

I tried to apply dominik’s changes and the problem was that they
broke a lot of stuff. I don’t see his numbers as being entirely
valid, but his approach was.

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Ryan D. wrote:

RubyInline since Dominik (sp?) gained similar speedups with pure-ruby. I
think the pure-ruby speed-up ended up within an order of magnitude of the
selectively-optimized RubyInline version. Instead of making the operations
faster, Dominik changed the data structures slightly for speed to reduce
work.

I tried to apply dominik’s changes and the problem was that they broke a lot
of stuff. I don’t see his numbers as being entirely valid, but his approach
was.

lol - i just presented it in class 1 hr ago! but, as you correctly
point out

  • it’s the concept which is valid, if not the implimentation.

ps. presented hoe too.

cheers.

-a

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On 3/7/07, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:

lol - i just presented it in class 1 hr ago! but, as you correctly point out

  • it’s the concept which is valid, if not the implimentation.

Sorry for being completely OT but it just stroke me:
Do your students know to read the ML before the exams?

Cheers
Robert