From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-01-31T08:35:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Solaris 10 performance problems

Colin Mackenzie wrote:
> java runs 7 times slower on this RISC platform, just going to drop it. 
> Every thing runs slow

7 times slower than what? Non-RISC?

At least with JRuby you could parallelize easily in the same script, 
Even the fastest SPARCs are nowhere near the clock speed of typical x86 
chips, but they're smaller, use less power, and you can fit dozens of 
them in a machine.

- Charlie