From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-09-27T11:52:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet On 9/26/05, Isaac Gouy wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: >> On 9/26/05, Isaac Gouy wrote: >>>> Will you complain now or change the Ruby script to use this >>>> functionality, that allows the program to run? >>> Here's how to contribute your program >>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/faq.php?sort=fullcpu#contribute >> Obviously, you didn't even read the program to see that it was an >> utter cheat to exec the program. The right solution -- as always -- >> for you to fix your damned run script. Fix that and you'll get >> results for the Ruby program AS IT STANDS. >> >> Don't fix it, and my assessment of the lack of honesty surrounding >> the Bogus Computer Language Shootout stands. > I implicitly trust Ruby programmers - it's simply unthinkable that any > of them would contribute a program which intentionally cheated. (And > it would give the Perl guys something to complain about.) No humour, either. I don't think that it's just me, but I strongly suspect that Florian's and Bill's submissions were very tongue in cheek. Neither one of them is currently cross-platform, as they depend on the shell command "ulimit". Bill's suggests something that Ruby could probably do to add ulimit support directly to the language, but so far, Matz hasn't seen fit to add such. I *do* believe that it was determined to be something that the environment, not the program, was responsible for. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca