From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-11-07T21:41:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24504] Re: Why is ruby slow (compared to perl)

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Aqil Azmi wrote:

> 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).

Ruby 1.7.* fixes the speed problem with large numbers (~100000+) of
objects; similarly I've written a source patch that fixes the problem in a
different way. You could try either or both and add a new row to your
benchmark. I don't guarantee it will be faster than Perl though.

(note: I don't know about Windows)

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