From: Zd Yu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: how to make eval() faster? Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 23:53:11 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 15 Message-ID: <0229c425b2bf06473387c4f47263eb93@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1305176013 3085 65.111.164.187 (12 May 2011 04:53:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 04:53:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 383025 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <0229c425b2bf06473387c4f47263eb93@ruby-forum.com> Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:4317 I use eval() to dynamically calculate performance metrics. for example: I have one configuration file that defines many performance metric formulas, like IPC=instructions/cpu_cycles. I also have another data file that contains many data samples, and I just call the eval() for every data sample. The problem is that I found eval() is really slow. is there a way to make it faster? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.