From: Shane Emmons Date: 2008-12-02T04:44:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Some benchmarks with MinGW, JRuby, MSVC... ------=_Part_107462_2546639.1228160952209 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote: > > Benchmarking ruby on windows is fairly useless. MRI 1.8.* is known to be > very slow on windows and harldy anyone deploys production apps to windows > because of this. If you want your benches to be taken seriously you need to > run them on linux, bsd or osx where ruby performs much better. Also make > sure to compile ruby with --disable-pthreads for best perf. > > > Cheers- > Ezra Zygmuntowicz > ez@engineyard.com Though it might be slow, I really don't think it's useless. Where I work, we are stuck in windows no matter the cost or benefit of another platform. Because of this these windows numbers actually matter to me. -- Shane Emmons ------=_Part_107462_2546639.1228160952209--