From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T18:23:23+09:00
Subject: Re: looking at ruby...

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:50:52 +0900, Csaba Henk
<csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org> wrote:
> On 2005-01-23, Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You can find some standard benchmarks at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
> 
> While we all know that benchmark results are to be taken with a piece of
> salt in general, I don't believe a word of this particular one.
> 
> Just look at the default comparison table:
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&sort=cpu
> 
> that is, all languages and all tests are considered, and comparison is
> simply by cpu time.

There's a win32 benchmark page at
http://dada.perl.it/shootout/craps_cpumemloc.html There's options
other than CPU use.  (I think the original shootout had other options;
can't find it now.)

> 
> CMUCL, Free Pascal comes after Python? Chicken, Gwydion Dylan and SBCL
> after Ruby (and SBCL has just a very thin edge over... PHP)?
> 
> Don't make me laugh.
> 
> The results of the original shootout were somewhat more realistic.
> 
> Csaba
> 
> 


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