From: dlissett0@... (Duncan Lissett) Date: 2004-05-28T22:01:29+09:00 Subject: Re: make faster Richards benchmark Martin DeMello wrote in message news:... > > > Nice that we are now faster than python, but there is still room for > > > small improvements. > > > You can find my version here: > > > http://flwrpwr.free.fr/Ruby/bench/bench27.rb > > > > Thanks for taking a careful look at what could be done. > > Isn't the point of the benchmark to compare straightforward code that > can be reasonably be said to be equivalent in all the various languages? Martin, I don't understand what point you're making - spell it out for me. There is one obvious difference between the language implementations - the Smalltalks, Pythons, and Ruby use numeric literals in the Tcb class. That's pretty questionable ;-) (Other differences are probably unintended.)