From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-05-30T01:13:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15943] Re: java based interpreter and regexes

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Je Lundo 28 Majo 2001 01:10, vi skribis:
> Frankly I wouldn't be surprised, your results indicated that the IBM 1.3 VM
> was slightly slower than sun's while my experience on a different type of 
> non gui program (it was a code generator) indicated that the IBM VM was
> about 3 times faster than sun's (and slightly slower than IBM 1.1.8 VM 
> maybe 5%) on that particular test.
> I was very disapointed by HotSpot results.

Yes, in general, I've found that the IBM JIT is not only faster than HotSpot, 
but slightly more memory efficient.

> hits the console even when calling the program several times, didn't time
> it) while ruby is
> instantaneous (at least the second time it is called)

I've had the same experience.

> Can you explain this bit, it seems to me that the gap was slightly widening
> and probably due

My bad.  I eyeballed the numbers and came up with the wrong results.

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