From 840486b8030aae9c946b9cfd3572ae953fe4c9cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yogesh Khater <yogeshjain999@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 18:54:12 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add comparison for method vs forwarded method vs delegated
 method

---
 README.md                                     | 20 ++++++++++
 ...vs-forwarded-method-vs-delegated-method.rb | 39 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 code/general/method-vs-forwarded-method-vs-delegated-method.rb

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6260fc7..a040e71 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -133,6 +133,26 @@ Comparison:
 module_eval with string:     1129.7 i/s - 1.19x slower
 ```
 
+##### Method vs Forwarded method vs Delegated method [code](code/general/method-vs-forwarded-method-vs-delegated-method.rb)
+
+```
+$ ruby -v code/general/method-vs-forwarded-method-vs-delegated-method.rb
+ruby 2.2.0p0 (2014-12-25 revision 49005) [x86_64-darwin19]
+Warming up --------------------------------------
+              method   247.079k i/100ms
+    forwarded method   183.323k i/100ms
+    delegated method   136.666k i/100ms
+Calculating -------------------------------------
+              method      2.481M (± 0.5%) i/s -     12.601M in   5.078755s
+    forwarded method      1.830M (± 0.8%) i/s -      9.166M in   5.009606s
+    delegated method      1.365M (± 0.6%) i/s -      6.833M in   5.006191s
+
+Comparison:
+              method:  2481182.0 i/s
+    forwarded method:  1829835.8 i/s - 1.36x  (± 0.00) slower
+    delegated method:  1365026.7 i/s - 1.82x  (± 0.00) slower
+```
+
 ##### `raise` vs `E2MM#Raise` for raising (and defining) exeptions  [code](code/general/raise-vs-e2mmap.rb)
 
 Ruby's [Exception2MessageMapper module](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.0/libdoc/e2mmap/rdoc/index.html) allows one to define and raise exceptions with predefined messages.
diff --git a/code/general/method-vs-forwarded-method-vs-delegated-method.rb b/code/general/method-vs-forwarded-method-vs-delegated-method.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87b9ab6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/code/general/method-vs-forwarded-method-vs-delegated-method.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+require 'benchmark/ips'
+require 'forwardable'
+require 'delegate'
+
+class AdvancedArray < SimpleDelegator
+  def initialize(*args)
+    @args = args
+    self.__setobj__(@args)
+  end
+
+  def push(value)
+    @args.push(value)
+  end
+
+  extend Forwardable
+  def_delegator :@args, :push, :forwarded_push
+end
+
+def fast
+  array = AdvancedArray.new
+  array.push(1)               # Simple method call
+end
+
+def slow
+  array = AdvancedArray.new
+  array.forwarded_push(1)     # Forwarded method call
+end
+
+def slowest
+  array = AdvancedArray.new
+  array.pop(1)                # Delegated method call
+end
+
+Benchmark.ips do |x|
+  x.report('method') { fast }
+  x.report('forwarded method') { slow }
+  x.report('delegated method') { slowest }
+  x.compare!
+end