Is there a performance gain in using single quotes vs double quotes in ruby?

Question

Do you know if using double quotes instead of single quotes in ruby decreases performance in any meaningful way in ruby 1.8 and 1.9.

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Answer 1

~ > ruby -v   
jruby 1.6.7 (ruby-1.8.7-p357) (2012-02-22 3e82bc8) (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_37) [darwin-x86_64-java]
~ > cat qu.rb 
require 'benchmark'

n = 1000000
Benchmark.bm do |x|
  x.report("assign single") { n.times do; c = 'a string'; end}
  x.report("assign double") { n.times do; c = "a string"; end}
  x.report("concat single") { n.times do; 'a string ' + 'b string'; end}
  x.report("concat double") { n.times do; "a string " + "b string"; end}
end
~ > ruby qu.rb
      user     system      total        real
assign single  0.186000   0.000000   0.186000 (  0.151000)
assign double  0.062000   0.000000   0.062000 (  0.062000)
concat single  0.156000   0.000000   0.156000 (  0.156000)
concat double  0.124000   0.000000   0.124000 (  0.124000)