From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-03-19T06:44:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is Ruby so slow?

In article <INEGJNJOFAMNDPNEABNEOEFEDCAA.curt@hibbs.com>,
Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:
>Kent Dahl wrote:
>>
>> Venherm Borchers wrote:
>> >
>> > WHY IS RUBY SO SLOW?
>>
>> Please see the "file reading impossibly slow?" thread.
>>
>>  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/35367
>>
>
>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.
>
>If Venherm's numbers are correct, it looks like there is still a problem
>here.
>

Perhaps, but as I recall he showed that the 1.7 test he ran was under 
cygwin (Windows and cygwin) - once again, could cygwin be the culperit in 
that case?

Phil