From: "Volkmann, Mark" Date: 2002-07-02T00:43:18+09:00 Subject: RE: ruby vs. perl This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22115.AFC99A10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I took a quick look at many of the performance tests at http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/. You're right, Ruby is not 30 times slower than Perl, but it seems to take about twice as long as Perl in most of the tests. Some aren't quite that bad, but many are much worse than twice as long. Python appears to be much closer to the performance of Perl than Ruby. > -----Original Message----- > From: Berger, Daniel [mailto:djberge@qwest.com] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 9:41 AM > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org > Subject: RE: ruby vs. perl > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ccos [mailto:ccos@bigpond.com] > > > > hello, > > i'm not a perl user. > > i have no agenda. > > somebody on another list i'm on just > > made something of a sweeping statement. > > that ruby is slow. > > thirty times slower than perl. > > there is discussion on that list > > about whether to use ruby for a certain project > > which is very timing sensitive. > > just curious what any of you might have to > > say about the aforementioned comparison. > > thanks, > > c > > Ruby has a slightly slower startup time, but actual execution > speed is about > the same in my experience. It is NOT 30 times slower than > Perl. For a > benchmark comparison of Ruby & Perl (among many others), see > the "Great > Computer Language Shootout": > > http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ > > Regards, > > Dan > *********************************************************************************** WARNING: All e-mail sent to and from this address will be received or otherwise recorded by the A.G. Edwards corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival, monitoring or review by, and/or disclosure to, someone other than the recipient. ************************************************************************************ ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22115.AFC99A10 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: ruby vs. perl

I took a quick look at many of the performance tests at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/" TARGET=3D"_blank">http://w= ww.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/. You're right, Ruby is not 30 times slowe= r than Perl, but it seems to take about twice as long as Perl in most of th= e tests. Some aren't quite that bad, but many are much worse than twice as = long. Python appears to be much closer to the performance of Perl than Ruby= .

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berger, Daniel [mailto:djberge@qwest.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 9:41 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: RE: ruby vs. perl
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ccos [mailto:ccos@bigpond.com]
> >
> > hello,
> > i'm not a perl user.
> > i have no agenda.
> > somebody on another list i'm on just
> > made something of a sweeping statement.
> > that ruby is slow.
> > thirty times slower than perl.
> > there is discussion on that list
> > about whether to use ruby for a certain projec= t
> > which is very timing sensitive.
> > just curious what any of you might have to
> > say about the aforementioned comparison.
> > thanks,
> > c
>
> Ruby has a slightly slower startup time, but actual= execution
> speed is about
> the same in my experience.  It is NOT 30 times= slower than
> Perl.  For a
> benchmark comparison of Ruby & Perl (among many= others), see
> the "Great
> Computer Language Shootout":
>
> http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>



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