From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-02-11T06:27:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.0-1? Ruby 1.9.1? OneClickInstaller191? PickAxe 3?

Wolfgang N��dasi-Donner wrote:
> Good Afternoon!
> 
> I have some questions concerning (realistic) schedules and details. They 
> are addressed to different persons.
> 
> 1) Ruby 1.9.0-1
>    - Is the February 08 date still valid?
>    - Is it still a development version, or goes it
>      into the direction of a production version?
>    - Will the encoding methods be complete?
> 
> 2) Ruby 1.9.1
>    - Is there already a planned delivery date for
>      Ruby 1.9.1?
>    - Will Ruby 1.9.1 a production stable version?
> 
> 3) OneClickInstaller191
>    - Will there be a OneClickInstaller version for
>      Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows systems?
>    - Are there activities to produce a production
>      stable system for Windows based in MinGW/MSYS?
>    - Does there some schedule exist?
> 
> 4) PickAxe3
>    - Is there a fixed schedule for the printed version
>      of PickAxe 3?
> 
> This are my questions for planning to use Ruby 1.9.1
> for production, mainly textual processing, major platform
> will be Windows.
> 
> Wolfgang N��dasi-Donner
> 
> 

This may or may not be relevant, but I have successfully built and 
benchmarked Ruby 1.9.0 under Cygwin. I haven't run the tests or 
attempted to use it -- I was mostly curious about how an "-O3 
-march=pentium4" build of Ruby 1.9 would compare with the stock Cygwin 
Ruby 1.8.6. I have no idea how the stock Cygwin Ruby was compiled. GCC 
version is 3.4.4.

benchmark results:
name	ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i386-cygwin]	ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-25 
revision 14709) [i386-cygwin]
app_answer	1.093	0.703
app_erb	3.094	3.844
app_factorial	1.172	1.437
app_fib	11.532	2.343
app_mandelbrot	3.938	1.797
app_pentomino	168.297	78.968
app_raise	3.500	3.547
app_strconcat	3.922	1.625
app_tak	13.547	3.187
app_tarai	10.907	2.843
app_uri	6.719	3.813
io_file_create	21.625	23.765
io_file_read	3.735	4.328
io_file_write	1.312	1.813
loop_generator	71.312	10.813
loop_times	10.406	6.953
loop_whileloop	13.125	1.610
loop_whileloop2	2.671	0.688
so_ackermann	19.734	2.375
so_array	9.860	4.140
so_binary_trees	5.172	3.015
so_concatenate	3.532	2.468
so_count_words	0.922	8.187
so_exception	7.359	5.922
so_fannkuch	134.828	111.454
so_fasta	19.547	18.219
so_k_nucleotide	13.437	8.875
so_lists	2.578	2.484
so_mandelbrot	58.265	32.219
so_matrix	4.265	2.969
so_meteor_contest	88.312	35.532
so_nbody	37.703	16.812
so_nested_loop	11.969	6.938
so_nsieve	33.781	12.625
so_nsieve_bits	97.593	15.297
so_object	20.549	5.574
so_partial_sums	43.930	21.414
so_pidigits	6.898	10.156
so_random	4.360	2.111
so_reverse_complement	22.128	23.854
so_sieve	1.219	1.469
so_spectralnorm	50.999	26.019
vm1_block*	36.152	6.968
vm1_const*	12.490	2.969
vm1_ensure*	14.398	2.515
vm1_ivar*	13.394	6.499
vm1_ivar_set*	11.353	6.812
vm1_length*	17.671	4.437
vm1_neq*	11.299	3.843
vm1_not*	3.210	3.655
vm1_rescue*	7.097	2.140
vm1_simplereturn*	24.992	4.828
vm1_swap*	47.687	4.265
vm2_array*	11.994	8.374
vm2_case*	7.100	1.234
vm2_eval*	41.799	154.235
vm2_method*	27.114	8.109
vm2_mutex*	8.444	14.805