From: Sergey Philippov <sphilippov@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T19:19:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

Phil Tomson �����:
> In article <20050407220145.GI23956@garnet.tc.umn.edu>,
> Thomas E Enebo  <enebo@acm.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 08 Apr 2005, Lothar Scholz defenestrated me:
>>
>>>Yes maybe its possible to transfer part of the language (all?) into an
>>>smalltalk VM. But you can never get all the binary extensions to work,
>>>an emulation layer would kill all your speed benefits if possible
>>>at all. So maybe you should simply announce a ruby branch called SmallRuby,
>>>since this would not have so much todo with the current ruby anymore.
>>
>> OTOH, if it is 30x faster and makes an alternate implementation of socket
> 
> 
> I'm very skeptical about the 30x faster claim.
> 

Don't be too sceptical:

fib(32): ruby - 7297ms, visualworks 7.2.1 - 79ms

~90x ;)

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