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Comparison of Nine Ruby Implementations

Posted by timothy on from the shades-of-corundum dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Zen and the Art of Programming published a new version of The Great Ruby Shootout, which was aimed at testing the performances of multiple Ruby implementations. On the benchmark table this time around are Ruby 1.8 (on GNU/Linux and Windows), Ruby 1.9 (aka Yarv), Ruby Enterprise Edition (aka REE), JRuby 1.1.6RC1, Rubinius, MagLev, MacRuby 0.3 and IronRuby. The results of this comprehensive comparison show that for this set of benchmarks, Ruby 1.9.1 is almost 5 times faster than the notoriously slow Ruby 1.8. Is Ruby finally going to be acceptably fast?"

3 of 75 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Troll Frist Psot by sveard · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's the worst cockney accent I've ever heard in my life.

  2. Re:Ruby 1.9.1 and JRuby by Foofoobar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Um... I suffer from a rare disease known as sig blindness. :)

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    This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
  3. Re:Troll Frist Psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You should buy a screen reader with cockney support then, mate. Personally, I use the CockneyCobblers3000 Deluxe, it even has support for rhyming slang:

    I'll get the jam jar round and we'll get daaaann the rub-a-dub, for a few Uri Gellas.

    Comes out, read like this, as:

    I will drive the car around to the front entrance. You shall get in, and we will go to the pub. Once there we will purchase and drink at least two pints of Stella Artois lager.