Splat operator benchmarking

output

       user     system      total        real
Using the splat operator  8.050000   0.160000   8.210000 (  8.235298)
Using sequence of params  5.300000   0.170000   5.470000 (  5.466839)

ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-darwin14.0]

splat_benchmark.rb

require "benchmark"

iterations = 10_000_000

Benchmark.bm do |bm|

  bm.report("Using the splat operator") do
    iterations.times do
      a = Array.new
      a.unshift(*[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
    end
  end

  bm.report("Using sequence of params") do
    iterations.times do
      a = Array.new
      a.unshift(1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6)
    end
  end
end