From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-13T14:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby performance on the Language Shootout

Hi,

In message "Ruby performance on the Language Shootout"
    on 02/02/13, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:

|Now it looks like Python beats Ruby pretty consistently.  Is this 
|because Python is bytecode interpreted and they've made improvements to 
|their VM?

Yes for the latter.  Bytecode interpreter often beats AST ones, but
I'm not sure if it's essential for the performance.

							matz.