From: Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>
Date: 2001-05-07T03:10:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14748] Re: SV:  Why's Ruby so slow in this case?

"Dennis Decker Jensen" <dennisdecker@mail.tele.dk> wrote:

>>[Squeak is faster than Ruby]

>Impressive indeed. And Squak even has a reputation for being slow...

Obviously, it's not that slow :-)  Things will further improve once
Squeak has its own just in time compiler.  A prototype for the
powermac is already available and it could be (I don't know the latest
improvements), that there's already a version for Intel.

BTW, for the curious, this cumsy Python code also needs 0.5s to run on
my machine.  That is, Ruby isn't at least not slower as Python :-)

M = 35
def o(x,y):
  return x>=0 and x<M and y>=0 and y<M

i=100000
while i > 0:
  o(4,4)
  i -= 1

bye
-- 
Stefan Matthias Aust \/ Truth Until Paradox