From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-09-24T17:32:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Latest benchmarks

On Sep 24, 2007, at 01:00 , SASADA Koichi wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> I can do fancier stuff in R, but I probably won't -- 5x is easy to  
>> remember.
>
> 2. These benchmarks are only "micro" benchmarks.  The purpose of
> these benchmarks are only to measure VM basic performance.
> Especially benchmarks focuses features which YARV achives
> performance improvement on.
>
> So practical application (such as using String manipulation) will
> not be fast.

For what its worth, the RubyGems test suite runs about 20-25% faster  
on a recent 1.9.0, as reported by test/unit.