From: namekuseijin <namekuseijin@...>
Date: 2010-11-04T09:30:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Perofrmance

On Nov 3, 4:11 pm, Steve Klabnik <st...@steveklabnik.com> wrote:
> about making Ruby as fast as possible. So the 1.8 to 1.9 gap is pretty big,
> check it out:http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all〈=rub...
> That's
> not even taking into account the other Ruby implementations, such as
> Rubinius, which uses a JIT, and is already pretty damn fast, or JRuby, which
> is currently the fastest Ruby implementation.

are you sure jruby is the fastest?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=jruby

it uses tons more memory and still is usually slower than 1.9.