From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-15T06:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Win32 1.6.8 fixed 1.6.6 io problem?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johan Holmberg" <holmberg@iar.se>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: Ruby Win32 1.6.8 fixed 1.6.6 io problem?


> I just ran some small wc(1) clones I have written in Perl/Python/Ruby.
> Counting the # characters/lines in the Ruby source took:
> 
>      0.28 s       C            Visual Studio 6
>      1.18 s       Python       ActivePython 2.2.1 Build 222
>      1.56 s       Perl         5.005_03 (ActiveState build 518)
>     33.68 s       Ruby         ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32]
> 
> 
> What should we poor Windows users do ?
> Switch back to Perl/Python ?

<joke>No, switch to Linux.</joke>

That's my New Year's Resolution...

Hal