I’m currently learning the Ruby programming language, and I was curious what kind of search is used in Ruby’s .find method for arrays. After a bit of searching around the docs, then figured why not find out for myself. I was interested to see what method of searching .find uses, and whether it was the fastest method to search through arrays or not.
To find this out, I wrote Ruby methods for linear search and binary search, implemented them, and tested their benchmarks with different sized arrays.
Here is how I implemented linear search:
Here is how I implemented binary…
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