From: MiG <mig@1984.cz>
Date: 2005-03-11T16:54:34+09:00
Subject: Re: very slow IO (STDIN.gets and puts) on Linux, ruby 1.8.2_pre3


1. I have NOTHING against Ruby, it is my best language
2. Is it wrong-doing to ask?
3. My dumb benchmark: I used real data. If you have 2GB of free RAM and
use 80MB file, is it wrong? It's the same if you have 1MB RAM and use
smaller file. I used the real data I have, that's all. It behaves the
same way with smaller.
4. Thank you for excellent humour.

MiG

>English is so much worse than Japanese!  When I try to count to one
>million in English it takes me 3.42 days, but when I try it in Japanese,
>it only takes me 3.12 days!
>
>Obviously, that means English is the worse language.  Why does English
>suck so bad?!?
>
>-----
>
>In other words: your benchmark is really dumb.  That isn't practical
>code, and trying to draw any conclusions from it is silly.  For Ruby to
>be considered fast, how much time should it take to read and discard a
>line of text 5 kagillion times?  Btw, I found a way to optimize your code:
>
>deleteme.rb
>#!/usr/bin/ruby
>exit(0)
>
>ben% time ruby deleteme.rb
>ruby deleteme.rb  0.00s user 0.00s system 102% cpu 0.006 total
>
>I'm still working on getting it to run in less than 0.004 total.
>
>Ben
>