From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T13:39:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Parrot SMOP benchmark

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:06  AM, Richard Kilmer wrote:
> Elapsed time:  23.52137

And from earlier:

> It has Ruby 1.6.6 being the slowest at 206s versus Perl 5.6.0 at 165s 
> and Python 2.2 at 136s.  Has anyone tried running it against 1.8.0 ... 
> yes, I know it's only been out for a few hours :-).  Might give us a 
> feel for how well some of the performance improvements work in 
> practice.
>
> Does anyone know where to get the Ruby code for this SMOP thingy?


To be clear here...

Is this saying that Ruby has increased in speed by an order of 
magnitude?  That it is now 5 times faster than Python 2.2 and almost 7 
times faster than Perl?

If so, wow.

Ben