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Assuming you want to do something 100.000 times.

The usual way is, to run a loop and use an counter

i =0 while i < 100000 do #DO something i = i+1 # in some languages you have i++ instead end

this sets i to it’s former value plus one after every loop.

I did a benchmark between Integer#+1 and Integer#next

Integer next is the favourite, because it knows, that it needs to count plus one already.

Here is the result:

jrw@sublime:~$ ruby integer_next_against_plus_1.rb 
using i.next 100 times
1
101
  0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000115)
using i+1 100 times
1
101
  0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000108)
using i.next 1000 times
101
1101
  0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000881)
using i+1 1000 times
101
1101
  0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.001130)
using i.next 10000 times
1101
11101
  0.020000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.011330)
using i+1 10000 times
1101
11101
  0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.011211)
using i.next 100000 times
11101
111101
  0.080000   0.020000   0.100000 (  0.118224)
using i+1 100000 times
11101
111101
  0.080000   0.010000   0.090000 (  0.110932)
using i.next 1000000 times
111101
1111101
  0.690000   0.230000   0.920000 (  0.998541)
using i+1 1000000 times
111101
1111101
  0.800000   0.180000   0.980000 (  1.051063)
using i.next 10000000 times
1111101
11111101
  7.000000   2.060000   9.060000 (  9.769309)
using i+1 10000000 times
1111101
11111101
  7.630000   2.110000   9.740000 ( 10.480469)
using i.next 100000000 times
11111101
111111101
 68.130000  19.560000  87.690000 ( 89.887507)
using i+1 100000000 times
11111101
111111101
 76.420000  19.240000  95.660000 ( 98.498498)
using i.next 1000000000 times
111111101

and here the code

require 'benchmark'


i1 = 1
i2 = 1
r1 = ""
r2 = ""

time = 100

while time < 100000000000000

puts "using i.next #{time} times"
puts i1
 r1 = Benchmark.measure do
  time.times do
    i1 = i1.next
  end
end
puts i1
puts r1

puts "using i+1 #{time} times"
puts i2
  r2 = Benchmark.measure do

time.times do

    i2 = i2+1
  end
end
puts i2
puts r2

time = time * 10
end

So, if you want to count, it’s alsmost 10% faster, to use builtin Integer.next