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def benchmark
# Your benchmarking code goes here.
end
# Be careful, pasting this into IRB will take a long time to print.
# It's a loooong string. :)
long_string = "apple"*100000000
running_time = benchmark { long_string.reverse }
puts "string.reverse took #{running_time} seconds to run"
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def benchmark

Your benchmarking code goes here.

start_time = Time.now
yield
end_time = Time.now

end_time - start_time
end

Be careful, pasting this into IRB will take a long time to print.

It's a loooong string. :)

long_string = "apple"*100000000

running_time = benchmark { long_string.reverse }

puts "string.reverse took #{running_time} seconds to run"

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