benchmak for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18705826/select-repeated-sequence-of-an-number-in-an-array

bench

ruby --version
ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-linux]

ruby bench.rb         
       user     system      total        real
babai1  1.700000   0.000000   1.700000 (  1.707292)
babai2 29.630000   0.010000  29.640000 ( 29.769966)

bench.rb

require 'benchmark'
iterations = 10_000
arr = Array.new(1000) {(rand()*100).to_i}

def max_babai1(arr)
  arr.group_by{|e| e}.max_by{|k,v| v.size}.first
end

def max_babai2(arr)
  arr.uniq.max_by{|e| arr.count(e)}
end

Benchmark.bm do |bm|
  bm.report('babai1') do
    iterations.times do
      max_babai1 arr
    end
  end

  bm.report('babai2') do
    iterations.times do
      max_babai2 arr
    end
  end
end