From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-01-17T12:30:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8/1.9 performance tests?

Kurt Stephens wrote:
> I'm looking for general performance tests that will run in both ruby 1.8
> and 1.9 to test changes to the ruby garbage collector.  Unit tests are
> ok, but I'm looking for substantial programs to test performance.
> 
> I'm going to try integrating the Boehm GC and my Treadmill collector:
> http://kurtstephens.com/research/tredmill.
> 
> Thanks
> http://kurtstephens.com
> 
> 
> 
I think ActiveRecord hits the GC fairly hard, but I don't know if it's 
running in 1.9 yet. My MatrixBenchmark will hit the garbage collector 
hard if you give it a big enough matrix.

http://cougar.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/MatrixBenchmark/