From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-10-28T04:33:56+09:00
Subject: Re: How fast does your Ruby run?

Daniel Sch�mer wrote:
> Gentoo Linux on Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (512 KB cache):
> 
> Ruby  Patch Platform            Seconds   Iterations per second
> ===== ===== =================== ========= =====================
> 1.8.6   111 i686-linux (gentoo) 32.801483  30486
> 1.8.6  5000 i686-linux          13.607635  73488
> 1.9.0     0 i686-linux           3.988949 250692
> 1.8.5  3876 java                63.589     15725
> 1.8.5  3876 java (-J-server)    44.173     22638
> 1.8.5  3876 java (-O)           36.917     27087
> 1.8.5  3876 java (-O -J-server) 15.194     65815
> 
> The first is the system installed ruby. The others are current
> svn checkouts.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel

What is "patch 5000"??