From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T06:37:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is Ruby so slow?

Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> writes:

> 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 :-)

With respect to IO, 1.7.* native windows should be as fast as cygwin
windows or Unix.  That is what I find with empirical tests.

-- 
matt