From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-06-22T08:20:36+09:00
Subject: Re: 1. Ruby result: 101 seconds , 2. Java result:9.8 seconds, 3. Perl result:62 seconds

Michael Tan wrote:
> Just new to Ruby since last week, running  my same functional program on the windows XP(Pentium M1.5G), the Ruby version is 10 times slower than the Java version. The program is to find the prime numbers like 2, 3,5, 7, 11, 13...

Refer to the simple programs on The Great Computer Language Shootout -
then you can blame those guys for doing meaningless benchmarking rather
than taking the heat yourself :-)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=java&sort=fullcpu