Results of a splat call benchmark

a.rb

require "benchmark"

iterations = 10_000_000

def splat(*args)
  args.first
end

def nosplat(args)
  args.first
end

Benchmark.bm do |bm|

  bm.report("Using the splat operator") do
    iterations.times do
      splat(1)
      splat([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
    end
  end

  bm.report("Using sequence of params") do
    iterations.times do
      nosplat([1])
      nosplat([1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6])
    end
  end
end

results.txt

       user     system      total        real
Using the splat operator  4.930000   0.010000   4.940000 (  4.950988)
Using sequence of params  4.130000   0.010000   4.140000 (  4.148014)