From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-06-10T13:55:28+09:00
Subject: Re: python/ruby benchmark.

In article <20050610024316.GA21914@freeze.org>,
Jim Freeze  <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
>* gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> [2005-06-10 09:35:28 +0900]:
>
>> I agree, It would be nice if ruby was faster. Luckily,
>> people are working on this.
>
>Don't go away thinking that X is faster than Ruby. Do
>your own tests. We tested Perl against Ruby in a real
>world problem (netlist parsing) and Ruby was faster
>than Perl by 30%. When we did a C implementation
>(which could now be done automatically with optimize)
>it was 100% faster (ie, took half the time.)

Are you saying that the Ruby netlist parser was 100% faster than the C 
implementation or the other way around?

BTW: I recall someone at a PDX.rb meeting who said he had benchmarked 
Ruby vs. OO-style Perl and Ruby was quite a bit faster (don't recall the 
percentage).  As I recall the explanation was that doing OO in perl 
requires more levels of indirection and thus more function calls.

Phil