From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2002-02-13T08:22:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby performance on the Language Shootout

At 8:12 AM +0900 2/13/02, Phil Tomson wrote:
>I haven't taken a look at the Great Computer Language Shootout page for
>about a year - I checked it out today.  About a year ago, Ruby's
>performance ranked between Perl's and Python's (with Python at the low
>end).  Now it looks like Python beats Ruby pretty consistently.  Is this
>because Python is bytecode interpreted and they've made improvements to
>their VM?

FWIW, bytecode interpretation doesn't really matter for speed 
purposes. I'd look elsewhere for any speed issues.
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                                         Dan

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