From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T14:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: looking at ruby...

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:03:04 +0900, Paris Sinclair <paris@perlpuma.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Premshree Pillai wrote:
> 
> >> 1. Can someone point me to benchmarks for ruby vs. other languages, perl
> >>     in particular but others as well would be nice. I found a few using
> >> google
> >
> > You can find some standard benchmarks at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
> 
> the requirements are that each language implement the sollution exactly the
> same as some other language implementation that was already done.

Umm, what makes you think the implementations are done differently for
different languages? They use a standard algorithm -- for obvious
reasons -- across all the languages.

> 
> So don't use these benchmarks to compare the languages IMO. They are not really

When using benchmark data, the standard disclaimer -- "benchmarks are
debatable" -- is implicit. :)

> even trying to do that, but rather to compare only certain implementations.
> 
> It is useful of course if you just want to compare an arbitrary implmentation,
> instead of comparing solutions to problems.
> 
> But usually people are trying to solve a problem with a program.
> 
> For example, the matrix one... in Perl there is PDL for dealing with this. I
> don't know about the general case, but when doing graphics using Gimp, it is
> orders of magnitude faster than doing it by hand like this benchmark does. But
> this site doesn't allow that.
> 
> --
> RubyPanther
> 
> 


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