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Ruby Implementation Shootout

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the always-with-the-shooting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ruby has an ever growing number of alternative implementations, and many of these attempt to improve the suboptimal performance of the current mainstream interpreter. Antonio Cangiano has an interesting article in which he benchmarks a few of the most popular Ruby implementations, including Yarv (the heart of Ruby 2.0), JRuby, Ruby.NET, Rubinius and Cardinal (Ruby on Parrot). Numerical evidence is provided rather than shear opinions. The tests show that Yarv is the fastest implementation and that it offers a promising future when it comes to the speed of the next Ruby version."

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  1. so... ruby? by TinBromide · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can they update the article to give a brief blurb on what ruby is? Or is it something that has become so commonplace in the past 2 weeks that i'm a doof for not knowing?

    Cause i read this and immediately thought of the chick who premiered with ati's r9x00 series video cards.

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    1. Re:so... ruby? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Ruby is a dynamically hyped, strongly hyped, runtime-addled, somewhat object-oriented programming language. It is discussed by infinitely more people than have a clue as to how to use it and will continue to be implemented by those who like to feel superior by using something only marginally accepted.