From: Andreas Hauser <buggs-ruby@...>
Date: 2003-08-24T07:27:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:30:09AM +0900, prosys@chartermi.net wrote:
[...]
> I looked at the comparison of various computer programming 
> languages at The Great Computer Language Shootout 
> [http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/] and was a bit 
> disappointed to see Ruby rated as low as it was in performance.  
> This is the only reason I have not yet adopted Ruby.
> 
> I did notice OCaml (Objective Caml) at the top of the list -- 
> right up there with C.  And, in my investigation, I discovered 
> the OCaml can be run as a script interpreter _and_ that it can 
> also compile byte-code and native code!  Wow -- just what I've 
> been looking for.  But for some strange reason, I am still drawn 
> to Ruby.
[...]

FWIW, i tried some of the shoutout benchmarks
and i have very different results.

For example, he claims ocaml to be faster than gcc in
the Fibonacci test (0.18 vs. 0.24), while
on any sytem that i tested C is much faster (e.g. 1.8 to 0.19).

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