From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-02-13T06:32:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ByteCodeRuby 0.1.0

Dan Sugalski wrote:

> This is a 'feature' of the two languages, though with a JIT I think
> you'll probably find Java faster than Ruby for many equivalent
> things. (We're finding a boost with Parrot's JIT doing perlish
> things, FWIW)

Yes, I encountered this with REXML, while running benchmarks against 
Electric XML under Java.  I was expecting ruby implementations to be faster 
because the regular expression evaluations are native code, and I thought 
this was where most of the time would be spent.  Howover, both the JIT and 
the non-JIT Java tests were faster across the board, often by a factor of 
several hundreds.

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