From: Aqil Azmi <aazmi@...>
Date: 2001-11-07T06:28:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24466] Why is ruby slow (compared to perl)

Hello,

I just downloaded and installed the windows version of Ruby (ruby-1.6.5-i586-mswin32 to be exact). I have been using perl for the last few years.

To start with I decided to run words frequency count for a benchmark test. Here are the results:

            file #1 (~ 0.5 Meg)        file #2 (~ 6 Meg)
freq.pl    3 seconds                    19 seconds
freq.rb    16 seconds                  189 seconds

I wrote freq.pl patterned it exactly on freq.rb (the one supplied in sample subdirectory).

My question is why such a difference in speed? BTW I am using activestate's perl 5.6.1 (build 626).

Thanks
--aqil



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