From: Charles Miller <cmiller@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T18:55:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Benchmark Mono - Ruby

On 12:05 Sun 06 Feb  , Michael Gebhart wrote:
> Mono Code:
>
> using System;
>
> class Bench {
>  public static void Main() {
>  double d = 0;
>
>  for (int i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++) {
>  d = d + i;
>  }
>
>  Console.WriteLine(d);
>  }
>
> Needs 10.8 Seconds.
Ruby code:

time ruby -e 'puts (999999999 ** 2 + 999999999) / 2'
499999999500000000

real 0m0.034s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.010s

Proving once again that algorithm choice is far more important than 
language choice. :)

C