From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T09:34:15+09:00
Subject: Re: The guy who wrote RubyScript2Exe needs to seriously reconsider how this little "gem" works...

On 9/25/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Ruby Maniac wrote:
> > I have a very simple Ruby script that does nothing more than compute
> > Dhrystones so there is a fair amount of looping going on in this
> > script as would be expected.
>
> Dhont Repeat Yourself Stones??
>

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMIPS>

Apparently it's a synthetic benchmark for scoring different
programming languages.  I'd be interested to see how Ruby compares
with Fortran, PL/1, SAL, and Algol.

I bet we could make it fast by doing the Dhrystone loop in C or
assembly even.  Put that into a loop {} construct and it would be
wicked fast!

Blessings,
TwP