From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T14:20:40+09:00
Subject: Re: I saw the beauty of Ruby Re: 1. Ruby result: 101 seconds , 2. Java result:9.8 seconds, 3. Perl result:62 seconds

Brad Wilson wrote:
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> I ran 5 million. Non-generic .NET is ~ 50x faster than Ruby (probably
> was before too, but we couldn't tell because of the smallish sample
> size).

For simple Ruby and C# Sieve implementations, on The Great Computer
Language Shootout, Mono C# was ~48x faster than Ruby

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


http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=nsieve&lang=all&sort=fullcpu#bench


> Generic .NET ran ~ 1.2x faster than non-generic .NET. All
> things considered, that's a decent showing for interpreted/latent
> typed vs. JITted/strong typed.
>
> C:\> ruby primes.rb
> 348513
> time taken 197.84 seconds
>
> C:\> primes.exe
> 348513
> Time taken: 00:00:04.0000512
> 
> C:\> primes-generic.exe
> 348513
> Time taken: 00:00:03.3125424