From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-17T02:54:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible"
>     on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:16:23 +0900, Reggie Mr <buppcpp@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> |My suggestion to anyone new or old that finds Ruby slow is this...
> |
> |It will never get better by this group.
>
> Agreed.  Saying it's slow is far easier to make it fast.  I know it's
> slow.  We are working for it.  What can I say more.
>
> Blaming, beating, or even insulting us would never help performance.
>
> 							matz.
>
>
>   
One thing that would really help is a "standard Ruby benchmark suite" 
that one could use to quickly compare alternative implementations. Since 
it's a little unclear to me what the "target market focus" is for the 
language, I'll invite the members of this list to post what they think 
should be in such a suite. Although it's an obvious "answer", I think 
I'd prefer to leave Rails out of the mix, because Rails performance 
depends on both a web server and a database directly, and the server OS, 
client/browser and network bandwidth indirectly.

So ... what should be in a "standard Ruby benchmark suite?" Does such a 
thing exist already?