From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T14:11:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparison Ruby, Python, Php, Groovy ecc.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM, <brabuhr@gmail.com> wrote:
> jruby 1.3.0 (ruby 1.8.6p287) (2009-06-03 5dc2e22) (OpenJDK Client VM
> 1.6.0_0) [i386-java]
>> jruby bench1.rb > /dev/null
> Ruby Elapsed 4.185
> Ruby Elapsed 3.760
> Ruby Elapsed 3.626

Pass --server for best performance. Additionally pass --fast to turn
on experimental optz.

> jruby 1.3.0 (ruby 1.8.6p287) (2009-06-03 5dc2e22) (OpenJDK Client VM
> 1.6.0_0) [i386-java]
>> jruby -rubygems bench2.rb > /dev/null
> Ruby Elapsed 0.409
> Ruby Elapsed 0.410
> Ruby Elapsed 0.412

Ditto. CPU-intensive code will often be as much as 2x faster with --server.

- Charlie