From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T13:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

Hi,

In message "Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row"
    on Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:19:41 +0900, ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:

|Please, prove my skepticism to be wrong.  A Ruby that was 30x faster (on 
|the same hardware) would be great.  As I said in the other post 
|responding to Avi, if it's possible to speed things up that much with a 
|SmallTalk VM, maybe we should be studying said VM to figure out how to 
|make it happen in YARV (since matz has recently said that YARV is the 
|future VM for Ruby).

It's not impossible to make Ruby run 30x faster for some tasks, for
example, YARV runs more than 100x faster in some small benchmarks.
But I'm not sure if it's possible to make it 30x faster in average.

							matz.