From: Eric Wong Date: 2014-08-24T02:13:25+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:64522] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #10165] Use Process.clock_gettime to speed up Benchmark.realtime. Thanks Pete! I committed your patch as r47260. I couldn't resist, so I also made r47622 to modify measure, too. (smaller improvement, 1.30s vs 1.44s on my VM) require 'benchmark' p(Benchmark.measure { 100000.times { Benchmark.measure {} } })