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Replace Array#shuffle.first with Array#sample #17245

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@sferik sferik commented Oct 13, 2014

Similar to #17099, Array#shuffle allocates an extra array. Array#sample indexes into the array without allocating an extra array. This is the reason why Array#sample exists. It is also more than 15X faster.

Benchmark
require 'benchmark/ips'

ARRAY = (1..100).to_a

def slow
  ARRAY.shuffle.first
end

def fast
  ARRAY.sample
end

Benchmark.ips do |x|
  x.report('slow') { slow }
  x.report('fast') { fast }
end
Ruby 2.1.2
slow  324806.7 (±8.1%) i/s - 1620738 in 5.028042s
fast 5069719.9 (±9.5%) i/s - 24872400 in 5.011482s

fxn added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 13, 2014
Replace Array#shuffle.first with Array#sample
@fxn fxn merged commit 0e08667 into rails:master Oct 13, 2014
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