From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T01:42:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance Ruby

On 8/11/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The best option for this shootout is to NOT implement anything for it.

The people running it don't know the first thing about what they're
doing and won't take responsibility for the errors in methodology and
the fact that their presentation encourages bad interpretation. The
Alioth shootout is dishonest to its core.

-austin
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