From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T17:39:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

Phil Tomson ha scritto:

>> OTOH, if it is 30x faster and makes an alternate implementation of socket
> 
> 
> I'm very skeptical about the 30x faster claim.
> 

well, take a look at the OO Richards Benchmark
http://pws.prserv.net/dlissett/ben/
the VW vms is something like 70x faster than ruby, so if not too much is 
wasted in the layering, there is still a fast vm.
IIRC there is also someone working on a python port on top of VW, which 
should be quite fast.

(btw, remember the usual "lies, damn lies & benchmarks"