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Created July 27, 2016 23:03
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  1. jkirkpatrick24 created this gist Jul 27, 2016.
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    def benchmark
    start_time = Time.now
    yield
    end_time = Time.now
    final_time = end_time - start_time
    puts "string.reverse took #{final_time} seconds to run"
    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 }

    benchmark { puts "ashfsldkjflsdkjbfdjkbdkjfvkjsndf"}