From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T01:04:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance Ruby

There is an online comparison of MANY computer languages ...

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

... there are some programs that don't seem to have any ruby solution
yet... if any of you feel up to it, ( or if you want to look at the
existing solutions that are there and performance tweak them ) ...  It
would be a "good thing"

Anyways, I hope that provides the informatoin that the original post
was looking for.

j.

On 8/11/05, Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
> Hello Goel,
> 
> G> A friend is thinking to use it at his work too (standalone), but must know
> G> some things about the performance before he is going to use it; hence my
> G> (wrong) question.
> 
> So the answer is it maybe 200 times slower (for example a pure ruby
> implementation of zip/gzip) or it might be only 5 times slower as C
> when you call a lot of C buildin's or a C library wrapper.
> 
> Does this really help ?  I guess not.
> 
> --
>  Best regards,                        emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com
>  Lothar Scholz                        http://www.ruby-ide.com
>  CTO Scriptolutions                   Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's
> 
> 
> 
> 


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"So long, and thanks for all the fish"

Jeff Wood