From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2009-08-24T21:00:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparison Ruby, Python, Php, Groovy ecc.

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> writes:
> 
>> Are those executables compiled with identical compilers + compile flags?
> 
> The question is understandable, but these implementation might very
> well be written in different languages, so it doesn't really matter.
> We can assume that they are as much as possible, if they come from a
> common distribution.

It does matter very much.  At least identical ones should be used for each
underlying languages to write them.  The report says that test was held on
Windows XP, so I suspect there is no such thing as "a common distribution" on it.