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Comparison logic vs `between?` vs `include?`

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
performance

Research direction

Start with the benchmark shown in the issue and inspect the repository’s existing comparison entries to find where this result belongs. Confirm the intended change with maintainers, then ensure the comparison is represented consistently and its benchmark results are reproducible.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'benchmark/ips'

Benchmark.ips do |x|
  value = 42

  x.report('>= && <=') { value >= 1000 && value <= 2000 }
  x.report('include?') { (1000..2000).include?(value) }
  x.report('between?') { value.between?(1000, 2000) }

  x.compare!
end
$ ruby -v
ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [x86_64-darwin19]

$ ruby bench.rb
Warming up --------------------------------------
            >= && <=     2.351M i/100ms
            include?     1.139M i/100ms
            between?     1.244M i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
            >= && <=     23.476M (± 1.3%) i/s -    117.558M in   5.008408s
            include?     11.117M (± 8.2%) i/s -     55.807M in   5.057945s
            between?     11.021M (± 6.8%) i/s -     55.959M in   5.102033s

Comparison:
            >= && <=: 23475928.0 i/s
            include?: 11117073.1 i/s - 2.11x  slower
            between?: 11020978.6 i/s - 2.13x  slower
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