From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-05-14T16:59:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ways to compare the performance of different Ruby implementations

Ask the implementers? :)

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Carter Cheng <cartercheng@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been looking at the source code. Are there other ways of
> getting into the differences between the implementations?
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Edward Middleton
> <edward.middleton@vortorus.net> wrote:
>> On 05/13/2010 12:51 AM, Carter Cheng wrote:
>>> ... I am actually not interested in running applications
>>> per se but in understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each of
>>> the respective platforms. I am trying to figure out what runs
>>> fast/slow on each platform and what each of them are good at
>>> performance wise. In terms of techniques I am curious how to proceed.
>>
>> I suggest you look at, and understand the qualitative differences
>> between the implementations before getting into benchmarking.
>>
>> ruby 1.8 only supports green threads
>> ruby 1.9 supports native threads with a GIL Global Interpreter Lock
>> jruby supports native threads
>>
>> There are obviously other differences and other implementations.
>>
>> Edward
>>
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