From: Julian Leviston Date: 2005-08-15T17:20:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Performance And there we have it, irrefutable proof that sarcasm often ends up on the bit bucket in internet communication. ;-) Julian. On 15/08/2005, at 6:01 PM, Robert Klemme wrote: > Florian Frank wrote: > >> This is much faster in Perl, too: >> >> my $num = 2 ** 65; >> >> my $i = 0; >> while ($i < 94967295) >> { >> $num += 1; >> $i += 1; >> } >> >> From this benchmark alone, you can see, that Perl is superior to >> Ruby >> in every thinkable way. >> > > Amazing how you extract "every thinkable way" from an eight liner. > Wow! > > robert > > >