From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-12-04T00:18:24+09:00
Subject: Re: have a problem with the loops and variable

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Michael Linfield <globyy3000@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It's a recursive function that calculates the fibonacci sequence..

That's a problem right there.  Ruby has extremely slow method
invocation because of all the dispatch rules.
If you really want to compare Ruby to C when crunching numbers / doing
array operations, write an iterative solution for a fairer test.

-greg