From: Michael Walter <michael.walter@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T07:40:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Benchmark Mono - Ruby

Is that with optimizations on (for C)?

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 06:07:40 +0900, Caio Tiago Oliveira
<caiot1@ibest.com.br> wrote:
> Alexander Staubo, 6/2/2005 03:14:
> 
> > To be fair, the type of the variable in the Mono example is "double",
> > but the Ruby example uses an int. A more appropriate Ruby version:
> 
> I've made this benchmarking in some more languages (using d=d+1):
> 
> In my Pentium 4 2Ghz 256Mb SDRAM 7200rpm:
> 
> Java:               00m14,45s (d as long)
> Java:               00m12,70s (d as double)
> C:                  00m03,27s (d as long int)
> C:                  00m15,90s (d as double)
> Squeak Smalltalk:   01m48,60s
> Ruby:               18m12,21s
> Python:             14m04,83s
> 
> I couldn't understand why the C code could be slower than the Java one
> (is the same code, as java and C have similar sintaxes, the java one has
> the boilerpart and is it).
> 
> SmallTalk is 100% OOo, with a lot of message calls and is much faster
> for this task than Ruby or Python.
> 
>