From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-09-21T08:51:03+09:00
Subject: Re: How fast does your Ruby run?

On 9/20/07, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon <summercoolness@gmail.com> wrote:
> How fast does your Ruby run?
>
> I got 53648 iterations per second running the following program,
> on an Intel 3.2 GHz HT, Win XP machine:
>

As you are seeing, ruby 1.8.x is painfully slow on Windows. =(