From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-09-26T06:16:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet

Martin DeMello wrote:
> Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Java is much faster. Search for "Language Shootout".
> >
> > ..and then ignore everything that you read on it, because the Alioth
> > shootout is garbage run by people who don't know what they're doing
> > and are dishonest (at least to themselves) about this fact.
>
> Could we have a c2-style shootout debate thread somewhere on the wiki,
> and then just point people to it? Otherwise the *same* thread plays
> itself out *every last time*.

Please.
Or just provide a search to past threads like Patrick Gundlach
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/db0cc36766c6296c?hl=en&

Having to say over and over that Ruby currently has an obviously slow
interpreter and that doesn't matter as-long-as your program doesn't
spend much time in the interpreter grows old.

(Also Mr Ziegler's abuse has become stale.)


> 
> http://rubygarden.org/ruby?BenchMarks
> 
> martin