#!/usr/local/bin/ruby # -*- mode: ruby -*- # $Id: strcat.ruby,v 1.2 2000/12/23 15:52:44 doug Exp $ # http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ # Benedikt Rosenau suggested using # str << "hello\n" # which is orders of magnitude faster than: # str += "hello\n" n = Integer(ARGV.shift || 1) str = '' for i in 1 .. n str << "hello\n" end puts str.length