From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-11-02T10:19:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FFI 0.1.1 (Foreign Function Interface) for Ruby 1.8.6/7 and 1.9

Rados��aw Bu��at wrote:
>> This gives the following results:
>>
>> 1.2.3
>> 1.2.3
>> 1.2.3
>>         user     system      total        real
>> ext  1.050000   0.320000   1.370000 (  1.373800)
>> ffi  2.160000   0.660000   2.820000 (  2.818966)
>> dl   3.500000   1.060000   4.560000 (  4.552789)
>>
> 
> Ubuntu 8.10 64bit
> 
> $ ruby --version && ruby ffi_bench.rb
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]
> 1.2.3.3
> 1.2.3.3
> 1.2.3.3
>          user     system      total        real
> ext  0.320000   0.070000   0.390000 (  0.396774)
> ffi  0.770000   0.120000   0.890000 (  0.895093)
> dl   2.090000   0.270000   2.360000 (  2.365029)

Seems like about the same ratio...probably can be improved too!

- Charlie