From: GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
Date: 2004-06-18T14:03:24+09:00
Subject: Re: the new great computer language shootout

Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote in message news:<20040617223524.GE96045@segment7.net>...
> Lennon Day-Reynolds (rcoder@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > I would guess that some of the Ruby code needs to be optimized, as
> > well; for example, in the Array Access test, Ruby places dead last.
> > That's rediculous, and I don't think it's indicative of the array
> > performance for general cases.
> 
> This is because of the use of Numeric#step.  The implementation is
> flawed.

Huh?  In what way is it flawed?  While there you can use slicing for
some operations, other array operations need iteration thru the array
as showed.
I do find the shootout is pretty accurate in terms of real ruby
performance overall.
The new web page is pretty bad in that most links are broken due to
typos and what not, so it is not clear to me the python tests are
based on psyco.  There does appear to be a separate psyco benchmark.