From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T18:38:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Parrot SMOP benchmark

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:18, Pierre-Charles David wrote:

Thanks Pierre-Charles.

So, it looks like Ruby's speed (for this trivial example) has improved by 
about 30% or a bit more.  That's pretty good, I reckon.

> ruby 1.6.8 (2003-07-09) [i386-linux]
> M op/s:        1.989644497
>
> ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i686-linux]
> M op/s:        2.74106276485519

The comparisons against perl and python are less interesting, apart from the 
fact that we can see we're still slightly behind them, but getting pretty 
close!

> perl 5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
> M op/s:        3.03030303030303
>
> Python 2.2.3+ (#1, Jul  5 2003, 11:04:18)
> M op/s:        3.13152921595