From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-08-29T05:34:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:48:37AM +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
> Hmm, I'm sitting here with a Sun box and a Linux box and
> thought I'd try this myself. Here are the results:
> 
> Ruby:
> time ruby tail
> 499999500000
> 1.250u 0.000s 0:01.23 101.6%    0+0k 0+0io 212pf+0w
> 
> Sun:
> time ruby tail
> 499999500000
> 11.36u 0.05s 0:11.50 99.2%
> 
> BTW, both were built with the latest 1.8.0.

Should the first one read "Linux" not "Ruby" ?

Suns have always appeared incredibly slow to me - in particular when
compiling applications (a compiler seems to be a pretty good processor
workout). Unless gcc has to do a *lot* more work to generate and optimise
Sparc code than Intel code (which I doubt), then the conclusion seems to be
that Sparcs are slow. Possibly also that Solaris is slow.

Regards,

Brian.