From: Reid Thompson Date: 2009-08-20T00:07:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Confirm my Performance Test Against Java? brabuhr@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Ben Christensen > wrote: >> I'm evaluating Ruby for use in a variety of systems that are planned by >> default to be Java. >> >> I've started down a path of doing various performance tests to see what >> kind of impact will occur by using Ruby and in my first test the numbers >> are very poor - so poor that I have to question if I'm doing something >> wrong. > > Is this test case in any way representative of the tasks you will > actually be performing? If it is, then you should just do $ time wc approach.txt 6836 78325 484114 approach.txt real 0m0.041s user 0m0.046s sys 0m0.015s