ab·surd·li

Exercising the file system

$ time ruby -e ' '

real    0m0.151s
user    0m0.124s
sys 0m0.024s

$ echo $RUBYOPT
rubygems

$ export RUBYOPT=
$ time ruby -e ' '

real    0m0.004s
user    0m0.002s
sys 0m0.002s

(This is a different machine than my last post…)

Making it worse

$ time ruby test.rb 

real    0m0.875s
user    0m0.677s
sys 0m0.196s