From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T07:39:37+09:00
Subject: Re: looking at ruby...

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:33:57 +0900, Navindra Umanee
<navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> > > So you're saying the common truth is that Ruby is fast enough, but only if
> > > you don't use Ruby but instead C?
> > >
> > > I think it discourages the community from focusing on things like bytecode,
> >
> > Don't worry -- plenty of people are focusing on things like bytecode
> > :-)
> 
> Can you give more pointers on this?  Any nice blogs of the ongoing
> efforts to speed up Ruby and the success so far?  The benchmark
> shootout on debian.org is somewhat worrying.

This could be Ruby 2.0:
http://www.atdot.net/yarv/bench_20041206.txt

Cheers,
Joao