From: Charles Oliver Nutter Date: 2009-09-04T01:01:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Comparison Ruby, Python, Php, Groovy ecc. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:18 AM, wrote: >> Ditto. CPU-intensive code will often be as much as 2x faster with --server. > > One of the machines I tested on only had the client vm, so I didn't > include those numbers from the other machines either.  However, > --server and --fast on the other machines didn't make much of an > impact on this short test: varying from a nice speed boost on some > runs to slower on others (the test program did not do any pre-test > warmup). May simply be too short of a test, or the bottleneck isn't in execution...but I'm sure with some poking around we could get JRuby to have the fastest result. - Charlie