From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-03-29T22:43:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.6.8 vs Ruby 1.8.0 preview 2 - benchmarks

>>>>> "D" == Daniel Berger <djberg96@hotmail.com> writes:

D> In 7 of the 9 tests, 1.8 was *slower*.  Should I be worried?

 One of the reason is the suppression of some #=== methods : in this case
 ruby call Kernel#=== which make a rb_funcall2("=="), this give 2 funcall
 rather than one if I'm right

 Another reason is the rewrite of fix_step, int_step in num_step which give
 a highter number of call to rb_equal

 Probably it exist other reasons : I've just looked why there is a big
 difference in the call to rb_equal()


Guy Decoux