From: "Andreas S." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-01T20:31:59+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby performance

Bartosz Dziewoński wrote in post #1066681:
> Still. Benchmark this for me, would you:
>
>    1_000_000_000.times{|a| }
>
> It takes 103 seconds to run on my machine. The following code in C++,
> compiled with -O0, takes four seconds.
>
> int main()
> {
>        for(int i=0; i<1000000000; i++){};
>        return 0;
> }

A loop with no payload is a completely useless benchmarking scenario.

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