From: Phrogz Date: 2005-06-22T07:15:35+09:00 Subject: Re: 1. Ruby result: 101 seconds , 2. Java result:9.8 seconds, 3. Perl result:62 seconds Even if we are all not smarter than that, Florian was, for he wrote: > Now do the same in the other two languages... Yes, tweaking Ruby to be algorithmically faster than the others results in an unfair comparison. However, as Florian already pointed out, the Ruby version of the algorithm was different from the Java and Perl ones from the start. (Or so he wrote...I don't know enough of the others to know for sure.)