From: lalawawa <usenet@...>
Date: 2010-01-30T08:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Distressing Doc

pharrington wrote:
> On Jan 26, 11:02 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <mar...@marnen.org> wrote:
>> burke wrote:
>>> I can assure you that ruby is not compiled (nor are python or perl).
>> Python can be compiled to bytecode.  Ruby can't
> 
> Ruby 1.9, running on YARV, compiles into bytecode.

I don't know what YARV is, but I upgraded my ruby from 1.8 to 1.9, and 
the benchmark sped up from 4.9s to 1.4s.