From: khaines@...
Date: 2007-05-08T07:16:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance - LOW ?

On Tue, 8 May 2007, conker wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> It's sad to see ruby at the bottom of this list:
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Are there slimmer highly optimized versions that are specifically
> targeted towards certain platforms?

This has been beat to death in the past.  Check out the archives.

In summary -- Sure, in general, Ruby is slower than some other popular 
interpreted languages.  But it's hardly debilitatingly slow.  I've got an 
asynchronous logger for ruby that will, even on modest hardware do 40-50k 
messages per second, for example.  That's pretty fast.  I've got a ruby 
web devel framework that buries (as well as I can test, since I don't 
see source for the tests anyway) the django numbers seen on this 
benchmark:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Framework+Performance

Ruby may not benchmark so fast as some other languages, but so what?  It 
doesn't stop me nor thousands of other people from using it successfully.


Kirk Haines