From: Robert Linder <robert_linder_2000@...>
Date: 2001-11-08T05:23:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24589] Re: Why is ruby slow (compared to perl)

Hi,
    Here is my two cents ($.02).  I seen where C is slower than Perl.  It is
all the the design of the code.
    When I move one of my programs from Python to Ruby, I took the idea ,
not the design.
    This leaded to a cleaner program.

    Learning code design is important to any language, and knowing what is
language is can do is important to the design.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Niko Schwarz" <niko.schwarz@gmx.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 08:21
Subject: [ruby-talk:24508] Re: Why is ruby slow (compared to perl)


> Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
> > These benchmarks (if you still have them) might be useful for the Cygwin
> > vs. MinGW vs. Visual C++ debate about the future of the Windows
> > distribution of Ruby.
>
> Don't you expect too much. The idea was just to show some classmates that
> Gauss really is faster than Cramer, so I didn't care about most issues of
> benchmark creation or optimization within the code.
> However, if you want to finish it yourself so that it's a neat benchmark,
> feel free to download it from www.mycgiserver.com/~niko/Wolf.rb (Wolf is
> the name of my math teacher).
> Most of the time it spends on copying and extending arrays, so it leaves
*a
> lot* to optimize for a VM, and really takes advantage of a smart garbage
> collection.
>
> hth =),
>
> nick
> --
> Real Users know your home telephone number.


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