From: Isaac Gouy <igouy2@...>
Date: 2007-11-07T08:07:35+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby performance questions answered

Quoting Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter / sun.com>:

> znmeb / cesmail.net wrote:
>> Quoting Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter / sun.com>:
>>
>>> Many people believed we'd never be faster than the C
implementation,
>>> and many still think we're slower. Now that I've set that record
>>> straight, any questions?
>>
>> 1. How long will it be before Alioth has some *reasonable* numbers 
=20
>> for jRuby? As of yesterday, they still have you significantly  =20
>> slower than MRI. So I need to take jRuby out of my slides for  =20
>> RubyConf :) ... I
>
> The current published Alioth numbers are based on JRuby 1.0(ish),
which
> was generally 2-3x slower than MRI. I'm hoping the numbers will be
> updated soon after the 1.1 releases...but it probably won't happen
> until 1.1 final comes out in December. If someone else wants to
re-run
> them for us, it would make us very happy :)


An "Update Programming Language" "Feature Request" will usually get our
attention.


Coincidentally, I did grab 1.1b1 so the benchmarks game has new
measurements

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=jruby



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