From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2002-02-14T02:24:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby performance on the Language Shootout

ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:

> 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?
>
> The version of Ruby they used in the tests was 1.6.6 (the latest
> official release).  Would any of these benchmarks be faster in
> 1.7/1.8?

I played around with timing the scripts they run under 1.6 and 1.7 and
they do run faster in 1.7 in almost all cases.  I'm not sure where in
the ranking ruby 1.8 will end up though, since I didn't compare them
to how the perl or python tests run on my machine.


-- 
matt