From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2004-01-13T00:17:03+09:00
Subject: Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number

David Garamond wrote:

> 1. Is there a way in Ruby to speed up 32bit integer arithmetics (only 
> involving numbers & sums up to 2^32-1)? I want to use Ruby for 
> summarizing network traffic logs, but it's pathetically slow compared 
> to Perl:
>
> $ time ruby -e'1000000.times{1073741823+1073741824}'
>
> real    0m23.693s
> user    0m5.720s
> sys     0m0.610s
> $ time perl -e'for(1..1000000){1073741823+1073741824}'
>
> real    0m1.142s
> user    0m0.320s
> sys     0m0.050s

i just tried to run this, and this is really quite discouraging indeed.. 
:O/ even though i was personnally never hurt by ruby's speed (yet).

emmanuel