From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-09-25T18:02:28+09:00
Subject: Re: My script showing Python speed vs. Ruby (long, includes code)

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Bob,
> 
> Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 4:00:25 PM, you wrote:
> 
> B> Both were started from scratch one time.
> 
> B> Ruby: 83.938 seconds
> B> Python: 18.52 seconds
> 
> hmmm. try to run scripts in reverse order
> 

There may be cache effects, but I could reproduce a 2x
runtime difference between Ruby and Python consequently
in several consecutive runs in permuted order. The problem
is really string#include.

Regards, Christian