From: Peter Hickman Date: 2006-08-03T01:08:21+09:00 Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 3, Source code now available Here's how it goes on my box: [Latin]$ time ruby latin2.rb > r5 real 0m16.283s user 0m15.380s sys 0m0.498s Which means that your computer is about as crap as mine :) I will add it to the pages and make it a download. I think I need a table summarising the timings.