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Created April 30, 2015 19:46
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benchmarch_with_block.rb
def benchmark
start_time = Time.now
yield
Time.now - start_time
end
long_string = "apple"*100000000
running_time = benchmark do
long_string.reverse
end
puts "string.reverse took #{running_time} seconds to run"
# Be careful, pasting this into IRB will take a long time to print.
# It's a loooong string. :)
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monicao commented May 4, 2015

This seems more readable.

def benchmark 
  start_time = Time.now
  yield
  end_time = Time.now
  start_time - end_time
end

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