From: lith <minilith@...>
Date: 2009-08-21T01:48:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Confirm my Performance Test Against Java?

> I suspect, but I may be totally wrong, that Java takes a while to
> 'warm up' a more complex runtime environment, and that Ruby gets going
> faster.  The JVM has evolved in an environment where it has tended to
> be used for long-running processes.

Put in a few require statements, load some gems in the ruby source and
then repeat the comparison. The last time I checked, e.g., groovy's
startup time was comparable to ruby's.