From: thomass@... (Thomas)
Date: 2003-08-15T20:52:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Ruby 1.8.0 improve in file I/O speed and pattern match speed ?

> I'm using ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32] and find file I/O too slow. Is ruby 1.8.0 faster? Some one in the list said speed is quite dependant on how ruby is compiled. Is that true?
> 

For IO ruby 1.8.0 is significantly faster than 1.6.8: My I/O intensive
test suite runs in 1.5s with ruby 1.8.0 and in 24.3s in ruby 1.6.8.

I'd say that is a pretty substantial improvement :-)

Cheers,

Thomas