Fastest method to see if all elements in an array have a particular value

Question

I need a very fast way to determine if an array consits only of integers with the value of 9. Here is my current solution:

input = [9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9]
input.uniq == [9]

Can you do it faster?

Answer 1

require 'benchmark'

n = 50000
Benchmark.bm do |x|
  x.report "uniq  " do
    n.times do 
      input = [9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9]
      input.uniq == [9]
    end
  end
  x.report "delete" do
    n.times do 
      input = [9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9]
      input.delete 9
      input == []
    end  
  end
  x.report "count " do
    n.times do
      input = [9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9]
      input.count(9)==input.size
    end
  end
  x.report "select" do
    n.times do
      input = [9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9]
      input.select{|x| x != 9}.empty?
    end
  end  
  x.report "detect" do
    n.times do
      input = [9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9]
      input.detect { |i| i != 9 }.nil?
    end
  end 

  x.report "all?  " do
    n.times do
      input = [9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9]
      input.all?{|x| x == 9} 
    end
  end 

end

it a benchmark for the answers above and some mine

        user       system      total        real
uniq    0.313000   0.000000   0.313000 (  0.312500)
delete  0.140000   0.000000   0.140000 (  0.140625)
count   0.079000   0.000000   0.079000 (  0.078125)
select  0.234000   0.000000   0.234000 (  0.234375)
detect  0.234000   0.000000   0.234000 (  0.234375)
all?    0.219000   0.000000   0.219000 (  0.218750)

if input = [1]+[9]*9:

        user     system      total        real
uniq    0.328000   0.000000   0.328000 (  0.328125)
delete  0.188000   0.000000   0.188000 (  0.203125)
count   0.187000   0.000000   0.187000 (  0.218750)
select  0.281000   0.016000   0.297000 (  0.296875)
detect  0.203000   0.000000   0.203000 (  0.203125)
all?    0.204000   0.000000   0.204000 (  0.203125)

if input = [9]*9 + [1]:

        user     system      total        real
uniq    0.313000   0.000000   0.313000 (  0.328125)
delete  0.187000   0.000000   0.187000 (  0.187500)
count   0.172000   0.000000   0.172000 (  0.187500)
select  0.297000   0.000000   0.297000 (  0.312500)
detect  0.313000   0.000000   0.313000 (  0.312500)
all?    0.281000   0.000000   0.281000 (  0.281250)

if input = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]:

        user     system      total        real
uniq    0.407000   0.000000   0.407000 (  0.406250)
delete  0.125000   0.000000   0.125000 (  0.125000)
count   0.125000   0.000000   0.125000 (  0.125000)
select  0.218000   0.000000   0.218000 (  0.234375)
detect  0.110000   0.000000   0.110000 (  0.109375)
all?    0.109000   0.000000   0.109000 (  0.109375)

Answer 2

You have a few options:

>> input.count(9)==input.size
=> true

or

>> input.select{|x| x != 9}.empty?
=> true

or the solution you had above.

Answer 3

This loops the array and breaks (returning false} when something non-nine is found.

[9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9].all?{|x| x == 9} # => true