[rspec-users] != again

[Pat Maddox]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:55 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Matthias Hennemeyer wrote:
>
>> Hey!
>>
>> I have implemented a quick solution for the should != .. , should !~ ...
>> 'problem'.
>> It uses source code inspection (I think it's the only way) and i've done
>> some
>> benchmarking to see if it's really that slow.
>>
>> A direct comparison of
>> running '1.should == 1'
>> with the unmodified rspec source against the rspec-version with source
>> inspect
>> shows that the latter is 7 times slower ... :(
>>
>> But benchmarks with '1.should == 1' inside a real example file are
>>  showing 'only'
>> an overall speed decrease of 15% to 50%. That is still bad but having lots
>> of people
>> consider the passing of '1.should != 1'  an rspec bug is bad too.
>
> RSpec is already getting dinged for being slower than test/unit. Making it
> run any slower than it already does is a deal breaker for me.

What about showing an ugly warning in the test runner?  != is a funky
edge case that can really bite people.  It'd be nice to have it fixed,
but then tell the programmer to change it to == because of
performance.

Pat