Merge pull request #68 from schmurfy/patch-1

yield vs block.call misleading

Author: JuanitoFatas

README.md

@@ -640,19 +640,20 @@ Comparison:
 ##### `Proc#call` vs `yield` [code](code/proc-and-block/proc-call-vs-yield.rb)
 
 ```
-$ ruby -v code/proc-and-block/proc-call-vs-yield.rb
-ruby 2.2.0p0 (2014-12-25 revision 49005) [x86_64-darwin14]
-
+$ ruby 2.2.3p173 (2015-08-18 revision 51636) [x86_64-darwin13]
 Calculating -------------------------------------
-          block.call    70.663k i/100ms
-               yield   125.061k i/100ms
+          block.call    55.809k i/100ms
+       block + yield    56.025k i/100ms
+               yield    89.387k i/100ms
 -------------------------------------------------
-          block.call      1.309M (± 5.7%) i/s -      6.572M
-               yield      6.103M (± 7.7%) i/s -     30.390M
+          block.call      1.069M (±21.2%) i/s -      4.967M
+       block + yield      1.172M (±16.8%) i/s -      5.715M
+               yield      4.087M (±11.0%) i/s -     20.201M
 
 Comparison:
-               yield:  6102822.9 i/s
-          block.call:  1309452.1 i/s - 4.66x slower
+               yield:  4087005.2 i/s
+       block + yield:  1171912.2 i/s - 3.49x slower
+          block.call:  1068741.4 i/s - 3.82x slower
 ```
 
 

code/proc-and-block/proc-call-vs-yield.rb

@@ -4,12 +4,17 @@ def slow &block
   block.call
 end
 
+def slow2 &block
+  yield
+end
+
 def fast
   yield
 end
 
 Benchmark.ips do |x|
   x.report('block.call') { slow { 1 + 1 } }
+  x.report('block + yield') { slow2 { 1 + 1 } }
   x.report('yield')      { fast { 1 + 1 } }
   x.compare!
 end