From: Robert McGovern <robert.mcgovern@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T06:11:06+09:00
Subject: Re: How fast does your Ruby run?

> Hand built 1.8.6 on 2ghz MacBook, 1gig ram:
>
> RubyMate r6354 running Ruby r1.8.6 (/usr/local/bin/ruby)
> >>> test.rb
>
> 55
>
> Ruby 1.8.6 patch 0 on i686-darwin8.10.1
> It took 9.495808 seconds to run. 105309 iterations persecond.

Followup, with the newly released 1.8.6p100

robert-mcgoverns-computer:~/Documents/Programming robertmcgovern$ ruby test.rb
55

Ruby 1.8.6 patch 110 on i686-darwin8.10.1
It took 9.955669 seconds to run. 100445 iterations persecond.

Slightly slower, running on battery but I don't think it makes any difference.

Rob

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