yury/gsm_encoder — pull request #4 by dlarrabee (2013-03-26 21:55:28+00:00)
Title: Further cleanup, and a benchmark test

I never actually did benchmark testing before so let me know if this is even correct.
If the benchmark I wrote is correct, my first attempt actually slowed it down (so good that you mentioned this), so I cleaned up a few things, changed an if call around, and it increased for sure. Here is the output from my benchmark tests. the benchmark was to test `encode` and `can_encode?` `5,000 times` with the value `!\"#¤%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?¡ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÄÖÑÜ§¿abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzäöñüà^{}\[~]|€`

* before-pr-3: this is the code before my merge
* master: code as it is on master now
* refactor-further: code in this pull request

```
Switched to branch 'before-pr-3'
Rehearsal ------------------------------------------------
encode: 8.500000 0.010000 8.510000 ( 8.500092)
can_encode?: 2.860000 0.000000 2.860000 ( 2.868009)
-------------------------------------- total: 11.370000sec

user system total real
encode: 8.380000 0.000000 8.380000 ( 8.386573)
can_encode?: 2.900000 0.000000 2.900000 ( 2.900623)

Switched to branch 'master'
Rehearsal ------------------------------------------------
encode: 10.160000 0.000000 10.160000 ( 10.168087)
can_encode?: 4.280000 0.010000 4.290000 ( 4.276853)
-------------------------------------- total: 14.450000sec

user system total real
encode: 10.270000 0.000000 10.270000 ( 10.271992)
can_encode?: 4.300000 0.000000 4.300000 ( 4.305207)

Switched to branch 'refactor-further'
Rehearsal ------------------------------------------------
encode: 1.890000 0.000000 1.890000 ( 1.892791)
can_encode?: 1.960000 0.000000 1.960000 ( 1.966089)
--------------------------------------- total: 3.850000sec

user system total real
encode: 1.880000 0.010000 1.890000 ( 1.882066)
can_encode?: 1.970000 0.000000 1.970000 ( 1.974797)