From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T05:44:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is Ruby so slow?

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> The thread you referenced above said that this problem is fixed in 1.7, but
> Venherm provided a 1.7.2 test which showed it to be nearly as slow as the
> other versions of Ruby.

IIRC, the problem was very dependant on how it is compiled up on
Windows, with regards to Cygwin, MinGW etc. I was under the impression
that it was fixed as far as Linux goes, but that portability to Windows
left something to be desired. Last I remember was a post that commented
on some "tricks" Cygwin apparently was doing. (Not too sure, as I
started reading it with only half-a-brain, after the problem sounded
Winblows specific :-)

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