Comparison of Nine Ruby Implementations

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?"

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Re:Ruby 1.9.1 and JRuby

[K. S. Kyosuke]

"Ultimately what I want is an interpreted language that can be compiled. So for example, in python one rarely actually uses the introspective ability to modify ones self, or even takes advantage of duck typing. instead one usually calls functions with the same type arguments and so forth. So if one just had the ability to switch off the dynamic typing and self-modifying capabilities so that one could compile it it sure would be one sweet language."

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Common Lisp hackers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...