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After working professionally with Ruby on Rails for a year, I decided to write an article on my experiences with the framework. http://nathany.com/developer/rails-magic Since I detail a number of things that I found unintuitive or could be improved upon, I am posting a link here on the Rails Core in hopes to stimulate David Heinemeier Hansson and the core team towards an even better 3.0

> It is not clear what the test-case is (what source, what compiler options). My suspicion is that your differences are in the noise, and most of the time is spent doing other things than hashing. Did you profile the a run, and check how much of the total time is spent in the hash-function [you may need to tweak the code a bit to not inline the actual hash function]. Also publishing the RANGE